Applet may refer to any of the following:

  1. An applet is a small, supplemental program that does a job a larger program is incapable of doing. For example, a Sun Java applet is a file on an Internet web page that provides additional functionality not supported by HTML.

  2. When writing in HTML, the tag is used to embed the Java applet described in the first definition on this page.

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    • How to create a computer program.