Applet Best Practices

posted by  jhorra (5)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

The first and most important thing that a person considering writing applet needs to do is to stop and consider if they really do need to write that applet.

The answer may very well be "yes", but far more often, the real answer is "no".

Once you've decided that you have no choice but to write the applet, you can still make sure that your applet doesn't interfere with the experience of your customer by following some relatively straightforward "best practices" (there may be others beyond these, but this list functions as a good start).

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