Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Kiss your Applet good-bye Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:37:07 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:37:12 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2ba04b02a7e0544bc205b86c4e86272e"; logging-data="12392"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX184VNSgegXP8iRjroNsGpWm" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wpci1eB3CJ79lRnt85p3U5aXTXs= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35433 It looks like even Oracle has given up on Java in the browser: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/24/oracle_reveals_java_applet_api_deprecation_plan/ -- esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid The Tooth Fairy has gone high-tech, now pays in Bitecoin.