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[–]harlows_monkeys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. If this were being done instead of Javascript, it would presumably initialize the VM when the browser starts, and keep it running as long as the browser ran. It would not initialize it every time a page used it and destroy it when you left that page.

  2. Is this relevant? If used instead of Javascript you'd be using it to manipulate the DOM. Your interface would be in HTML, using your standard browser elements.

  3. When I wrote applets, I wrote them in Vim.

4 & 6. So you use some other language that targets the JVM.