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In 2. Can you elaborate on what you mean by CGI URL?
I use showDocument with a URL created from the applet to display the HTML using
javascript.
This works in Netscape 4.x but IE4 throws an exception: javascript unknown
protocol

Arun

William Yu wrote:

> "Daniel R. J. Lind" wrote:
> >
> > I want to use a Java applet to dynamically create HTML in another frame in a
> > standard browser. Is this easy to do?  How do you do it?
>
> There is no easy way to do this. Possible options:
>
>   1. Run servlets or CGI scripts on your web server. Have the applet
> communicator back to the web server to transmit the HTML output there.
> Then use showDocument with a CGI URL that will tell the server to
> display the stored HTML output.
>
>   2. Open a socket connection on port 80 to the browser. Have the
> browser show in the target frame the URL http://localhost. Then transmit
> the HTML output to the browser with all the appropriate HTTP tags. (Not
> sure if this is possible.)
>
>   3. Have an applet in the target frame with a HTML parser component.
> Use some form of interapplet communication (static class variables,
> infobus, etc.) to transmit the HTML content to the target applet.
>
> I recommend #3.