The appletviewer Browser
The appletviewer tool runs Java programs that require a web browser and are presented as part of an HTML document. It takes an HTML document as a command-line argument, as in the following example:
appletviewer NewAuctions.html
If the argument is a web address instead of a reference to a file, appletviewer will load the HTML document at that address. For example:
appletviewer http://www.javaonthebrain.com
Figure B.1 displays an applet loaded from this page, a site developed by cartoonist and Java game programmer Karl Hörnell.
Figure B.1. Viewing Java web applets outside of a browser.
When an HTML document is loaded ...
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