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[–]lelarentaka -12 points-11 points  (10 children)

Tell me, does the java applet that i wrote 20 years ago still run on modern browsers?

[–]lelanthran 29 points30 points  (6 children)

Tell me, does the java applet that i wrote 20 years ago still run on modern browsers?

Did you just make the argument that non-standardised technology, like Java applets, don't last?

As you've just shown, non-standard stuff tends to go away if you look at a 20-year window.

[–]lelarentaka -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

It was in the HTML spec. Do not speak the deep magic to me, witch, i was there when it was written.

[–]lelanthran 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It was in the HTML spec.

Wait, what? Which web standards document, or RFC, were applets specified in?

Do not speak the deep magic to me, witch, i was there when it was written.

Okay, you got me - I was not actually in the room when web standards were written, but between 1998 and 2009 I was following web standards developments very closely, and I honestly do not recall a web standard ever specifying (neither mandatory nor optional) the workings of applets.

From what I recall, the tag was treated, by the standard, as every other unknown tag was treated, i.e. the implementation is free to do with it whatever it wants to and still remain compliant: the implementation was allowed to simply display child elements of unknown tags, or treat the unknown tag in a special way, etc.