World-Wide Web A modular, extensible
World-Wide Web browser from Sun Microsystems that can execute programs written in the
Java programming language. These programs, known as "
applets", can be included (like images) in
HTML pages. Because Java programs are compiled into machine independent bytecodes, applets can run on any
platform on which HotJava runs - currently (December 1995)
SPARC/
Solaris 2 and
Intel 80x86/
Windows 95,
Windows NT.
(https://java.sun.com/hotjava.html).
(1995-12-10)