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, WindowsNT.