A Guide to Applet Programming

The first thing to know is how to include an applet in an HTML page. We use a new experimental HTML tag(*).

<APP CLASS=modname.classname
     SRC=url
     ARG1=value1
     ARG2=value2
     ...>

Attributes:

CLASS specifies the module and class names; if they are the same, the module name may be omitted.
SRC specifies the URL of a directory from which the module is to be loaded (if it isn't already loaded).
all other attributes are converted to numbers or strings and passed to the applet constructor as keyword arguments. HTML attribute names are case-insensitive; they are passed to Python in lowercase.

(*) Note: the <APP> tag is actually illegal SGML because of its arbitrary attribute values. Work is underway to design a conformant interface.