On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:59:47 +0100, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* <applet>: the (old) way of activating Java. Probably must also die,
though I'm unsure about this one.
Why must it die? Browsers have to support it anyway, so documenting it
and letting it pass conformance checking seems sensible.
I agree to documenting it, but it should definately be deprecated in
favour of e.g. <object>.
I don't like applets, either. In fact I've never seen a Java applet that
wasn't either useless, better implemented in JavaScript, better
implemented in Flash or better in a window of its own rather than in a
replaced element rectangle. Still, pretending that <applet> doesn't
exist won't make applets disappear. :-(
It's not about fighting Java on the web, it's about not giving it its own
special element, when -- as you point out -- it does exactly the same as
Flash does, which doesn't have its own element.
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