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Re: Java 2 Applets

Posted by Frank Hale on 1999-05-03

Colin S Asquith wrote:
> 
> Oh- I forgot to add this to my last post!!
> 
> Sorry- I can't for the life of me get the JDK 1.2 applets to run in IE 4 or
> 5 or Netscape... I have written applets easily enough (in fact the same ones
> sometimes) in 1.1 and used the <APPLET> tag to insert them. It seems that
> with JDK 1.2 I need to use the Java Plug in to work them, and I run the plug
> in chooser and still it says that it cannot run or find the applet. Is there
> a different tag used for the 1.2 applets?
> 

Yes the format for the java plugin is different then the normal
<applet></applet> tag. From my experience and its been limited. I used
the plugin for a time early last year when it first appeared. But SUN
provided a tool to convert regular HTML into the new syntax for loading
the plug and your applet.

The java plugin is ActiveX so you need to use the <embed> tag. The
format is documented on there site and it should also be part of the
documentation that is included with it (at least it was when I tried
it).

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