Java on Your Web Site? Part 3

Finally, one of the most popular type of applets are text applets, or applets that manipulate text in one fashion or another. Here is a sample listing of some of our most popular text applets:

• AnimText
• CircleBanner
• Minnal
• NewsScroller
• TextScroll

The Bottom Line

Java can indeed be used to speed your site, or it can slow it to a crawl. If your site is unlike others available and your visitors will wait for a 500K applet to download because it's going to do something that's worth waiting on, then by all means use it. If, on the other hand, you just want to animate that 500K image of the corporation's building, perhaps it's time to re-evaluate the purpose of your Web site, and start thinking "decaf."

This article first appeared in July, 1998

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