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I was reading through a website named w3schools and was taking the HTML5 lesson. There I saw a number of deprecated tags in HTML5 that were before accepted by HTML4. One of its tag were <applet>! So are now applets of no use?
You can see it here: HTML5 New Elements(at the end)
or here:
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Components required to run Applets on non-Windows platforms are being removed starting July 2020. Web Start has been included in the Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) since 2001. It is launched automatically when a Java application using Web Start technology is downloaded for the first time.
No, there isn't. Java Applets are dead and there is no viable way to run them for the vast majority of users on the public Internet.
Applets were supported by most web browsers through the first decade of the 21st century; since then, however, most browsers have dropped applet support for security reasons.
You can still relive the heyday of Java applets through UltraStudio, an online museum of educational applets, but Java has been mostly replaced by Flash and JavaScript for creating interactive programs on the web.
Applet deprecated in Java 9Applets are deprecated in Java 9. Oracle will stop distributing and supporting the Java browser plug-in.
Quoting from the java.applet.Applet class:
The Applet API is deprecated. See the java.applet package documentation for further information.
See this blog post from Oracle for more info: Moving to a Plugin-Free Web
Consider Java Web Start technology.
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