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How to run your applets in your browser

Another title for this page might be:

Why can't I run the applets that I wrote for this course?

You've written an applet. Maybe it was even an applet you had to do for your term work in CSC108. It works in the "applet viewer" that is part of the JDK, and in CodeWarrior's browser, but you can't run it from your own web browser. Why not?

(A "browser" is the application or program you use to look at things made available over the World Wide Web. The most popular browsers are currently Netscape's Navigator or Communicator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer.)

The reason is almost certainly that your browser doesn't work with the version of Java that you used to write your applet. You can download an up-to-date version of "Communicator" from Netscape, and you'll need to get a current version of Java too, if there isn't one on the computer where you're running your browser.

When you've finished installing your new software, you should be able to run your applets.