Client Side Activity

Desire for increased programmability on the browser:

• Just add Java, and serve
  
  
  • Can upload applets to perform non-HTML functionality
  • Can write custom Internet client, and embed it as a page applet

Some problems, though

• Custom applets for each application are expensive
• Not as fast as one might hope, nor entirely platform-independent
• No easy way to mix 'easy' HTML rendering with applet programmability