What percentage of personal computers can run Java applets?
Applets are used to provide interactive features to web applications that cannot be provided by HTML. Since Java’s bytecode is platform independent, Java applets can be executed by browsers for many platforms, including Windows, Unix, Mac OS and Linux. There are open source tools like applet2app which can be used to convert an applet to a stand alone Java application/windows executable. This has the advantage of running a Java applet in offline mode without the need for internet browser software, so that pretty much everyone will be able to see your applet. The exception is people who disable Java in their browsers, but if I had to guess that would be fewer than 10% of all users.
Applets are used to provide interactive features to web applications that cannot be provided by HTML. Since Java’s bytecode is platform independent, Java applets can be executed by browsers for many platforms, including Windows, Unix, Mac OS and Linux. There are open source tools like applet2app which can be used to convert an applet to a stand alone Java application/windows executable. This has the advantage of running a Java applet in offline mode without the need for internet browser software, so that pretty much everyone will be able to see your applet. The exception is people who disable Java in their browsers, but if I had to guess that would be fewer than 10% of all users. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
