Remove support for <applet>

Category: DOM
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Removed (Chrome 47)
Intent stage: None

Summary

The <applet> tag is only used to instantiate the Java plugin. Running the Java plugin requires NPAPI support, but NPAPI support in Blink has already been removed. Most <applet> support has been removed, though the special parsing rules have been retained for backwards compatibility.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-applet-element
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/470301

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/applet

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