>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.

Microsoft will also pull back Java support in Windows XP:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2790355,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews
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