>>> no browser that supported it
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>>Use the Java Plug-in from Sun.
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>Albert;
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>That was not available the night Java 1.2 was released. Browser support was only available for version 1.1 of Java. Our user group was "down the street" from Sun, and we were very close to what was going on. Sometimes one element of technology gets ahead of another even though they are tied together or dependant upon each other.
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>An analogy might be someone invents the hammer and there is no nail. At least with that scenario you can kill ants until nails are available. Gee ? analogies never work! :)
The same thing happened from the very beginnings of the technology. When they invented the wheel, they couldn't test it until they invented the axle.