One of the things which slightly unsettled me after the release of Update N was the frequent mention of how much better things would now get for Java applets. The subject cropped up again, in detail, during my post-holiday catch up of Java Posse podcasts.
To paraphrase Obi Wan Kenobi: "Applets, now there's a name I haven't heard in a long long time."
Like many who came to the platform in its...