The good news is that perhaps we can finally get passed obsolete versions of
Java for applets, anyway.  All of the new work on things like Java DOM /
Doclets / Weblets requires Java 2.

The other issue is what happens to the <applet> tag in IE.  Will IE
recognize a plug-in, and use the tag, or will every web site that wants to
use java applets have to recode all of the pages to use the <object> tag?

We shall see.  Given that Microsoft has already broken the <embed> tag in
IE6, can the <applet> tag be far behind?

Of course, Microsoft says is that <embed> and <applet> are deprecated in
HTML 4, anyway, so they are free to discard them.

	--- Noel