According to 13.4 Including an applet: the APPLET element [1], the following HTML code is valid:
<OBJECT codetype="application/java" classid="AudioItem" width="15" height="15"> <PARAM name="snd" value="Hello.au|Welcome.au"> Java applet that plays a welcoming sound. </OBJECT> However, the value of codetype is Content-Type [2], and "application/java" is not a valid Content-Type because it is not registered [3]. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#h-13.4 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-codetype [2] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/