Canonical way to enable applet

Question

What is the canonical way to enable an applet?

I tried,

Enable Browsers in JS.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html#javascript

These are breaks in Safari 5.0.1 on Leopard. (He worked on a snow leopard safari.)

Since we do not support older browsers, I suggested that I could just use the <object> , but apparently FF does not respect this.

What is the canonical way to do this?

Answer 1

The applet tag seems like a reasonable compromise, but I almost completely switched to Java Web Start .

Addendum: passer's notes,

JWS is a technology for launching desktop applications.

From the Java SE 6u10 release notes: "Next Generation Java Plug-In Technology ... Provides Support for Running Applets Directly from JNLP Files."