"Applets run in their own area on the page and can't interact with the rest of the page like javascript does." You can actually call methods in a Java applet f

"Applets run in their own area on the page and can't interact with the rest of the page like javascript does." You can actually call methods in a Java applet from Javascript and vice-versa. It just doesn't seem to be used very much: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/invokingAppletMethodsFromJavaScript.html http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet...