Browser Applet

A Browser Applet is a program that runs on a web browser.

• AKA: Applet.
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• Example(s):
  • a Bookmarklet.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Browser Extension.
• See: Application (Computing), Program (Computing), Plug-In (Computing), Java Applet, Web Page.

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References

2013

• (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/applet Retrieved:2013-12-2.
  • In computing, an applet is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program, often as a plug-in. The term is frequently used to refer to a Java applet, a program written in the Java programming language that is designed to be placed on a web page. The word applet was first used in 1990 in PC Magazine.

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