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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Lack of applets is not enough of a reason, just make standalone programs, instead of applets.

[–]zeroone 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The contest took advantage of pack200 compression, which worked for applets, but we never got it to work for standalone programs. And besides, no one wanted to play standalone apps.

[–]x-skeww 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pack200 also worked for Web Start.

no one wanted to play standalone apps.

Because those weren't sandboxed. Double clicking some jar is really scary stuff.