Java Applets

Applets are going to make a come back, I can feel it in my bones. Have you been polishing your Java skills, /prog/? Because now that flash is dying, HTML5 is never going to be finished, and JS has fallen out of favor, people are going to turn once again to Java to save them, and to decorate their websites with interactive media.

I'd rather write code for ActiveX and IE6, honestly, and I'd only do that to stave off starvation.

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A funny thing: I really liked working with Silverlight.  All the stuff you normally can't do in the browser was (kind of) possible.  It was a shitty option, but it was less shitty than all the others.

In 5 years JavaScript will replace most of niche proprietary plugins. Web developers have been abandoning the plugins by the droves and the legacy stuff is what keep the plugins alive.