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It was successful for a while. Java applets were once fairly common. But then Flash largely replaced them, and then Html5 killed them flat.

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A very limited "anywhere", but yes.

For that use case, was it active content, was it shipping intermediate representation, was it a sandbox? To all three: yes, very poorly.

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0 pointsthayne2mo ago0 comments

It was successful for a while. Java applets were once fairly common. But then Flash largely replaced them, and then Html5 killed them flat.

A very limited "anywhere", but yes.

For that use case, was it active content, was it shipping intermediate representation, was it a sandbox? To all three: yes, very poorly.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse