Bob is probably more knowledgeable than me, but this is how I see things: If you have the HTML4 doctype in the header, the browsers will interpret as such. No problem with <applet>. After all, this tag is already deprecated in 4.01, but the browsers respect it.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#h-13.4 says "APPLET is deprecated (with all its attributes) in favor of OBJECT." Only pages with the HTML5 doctype (which, BTW, is absolutely simple: <!DOCTYPE HTML> ) may produce the reject --and I bet that the browsers will still render it, since they tend to be conservative and forgiving. Maybe pages without any header will be interpreted by browsers as HTML5 by default in the future and so break. I don't think it is a question of pages stop working, but rather of start coding better for the future. And Jmol.js takes care of inserting the proper tag (currently, <object> if the detected browser supports it). <applet> remains only in pages coded manually. On another line, my former comment in this thread was trying to decide whether we must remove the pages from the website that give examples that use applet tag. Or maybe rewrite it to use object tags? That's mainly http://jmol.sourceforge.net/scripting/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
