Tom HawtinThomas Hawtin's WeblogUsing Applets in place of JavaScript- October 30, 2006 Common DOM API is a little known feature of the Java Plug-In. The DOM containing the applet is available with interfaces to support reading, modifying and adding event listeners to the page. Everything we need to ditch JavaScript, right I had known about the API for some time, but never gave it a spin. Nor had I ever seen any evidence of anyone else using it. Given the mess that is AJA"X", and JavaScript in general, this seems odd. Google Code Search finds one Hello World example, and that's..http://www.jroller.com/tackline/entry/using_applets_in_place_of |