157926 2016-05-19 15:11:14 -0700 Remove applet support 2022-07-05 13:57:43 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit DOM Safari 9 Unspecified Unspecified RESOLVED DUPLICATE 218677 P2 Normal --- 1 d webkit-unassigned ap cdumez darin emilio eoconnor gyuyoung.kim jonlee koivisto pieter.breugelmans rniwa sam oldest_to_newest 1194996 0 d 2016-05-19 15:11:14 -0700 Per discussions in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/454 we're trying to see if other browsers are willing to follow Chrome's lead and remove support for <applet>. So far it seems like Edge is in favor as well. Concretely: - Do *not* change the parsing rules for <applet> - Remove HTMLAppletElement - Make document.applets always return an empty HTMLCollection (even if there are <applet> elements in the document). Would WebKit be interested in this change? As a bonus, you'd get to close a *bunch* of open issues: https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=applet&list_id=1805197 1194998 1 d 2016-05-19 15:18:04 -0700 After doing further spec survey, I added these additional changes: - Remove applet from document.all - Remove applet from the Document's named properties collection - Remove applet from the Window's named properties collection - Remove applet attributes align="", hspace="", vspace="", width="", and height="" presentional behavior 1283226 2 cdumez 2017-03-03 13:20:15 -0800 Does anyone have any opinion on this? 1283248 3 sam 2017-03-03 14:10:01 -0800 I'd want data on how much it is used in Safari before making a call. In the past, there have been some big users of Java in Safari on the Mac, so it's not an obvious call to me. 1337572 4 rniwa 2017-08-10 13:53:07 -0700 I just checked the internal statistics, and Java is still used in a significant proportion of users so I don't think we're dropping this feature anytime soon given Safari is probably the only browser on Mac that supports Java at this point. 1386483 5 emilio 2018-01-06 05:31:16 -0800 Just a status update here: * Gecko removal: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279218 (shipped in FF56) * Spec removal: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/1399 * Chromium removal: https://crbug.com/470301 (shipped a ton ago) * Edge bug (not sure if they have removed or not): https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/11946645/ I'm happy to write a patch for this if WebKit's position on this removal changes. 1386485 6 rniwa 2018-01-06 06:35:34 -0800 There is no consensus to remove this feature from WebKit at this moment. 1880788 7 gsnedders 2022-07-05 13:57:43 -0700 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 218677 ***