1. The AppletViewer cannot recognize any capitalized HTML tags.
2. You can drag and drop html files onto the Applet Viewer, but not .class files.
3. This version of the JDK 1.0 Beta only does applets not applications (except for very simple ones).
4. Use the viewer to view your pages to see if the applets will run while embedded in the html.
5. A good approach is to copy-and-modify existing applets and substitute your own images or text.
6. You can use the Applet Viewer to see all (or many) of those applets out there for Windows & Sun by opening the URLs with it.
7. Parameters can be passed with the html code to the applet or hardwired into the java code.
8. You can write a perfectly good applet and the Applet Viewer still may be unable to view it.
9. The corrollary is that just because it won't work in the Applet Viewer doesn't mean there is something wrong with your applet.
10. The AppletViewer honors the resize() function, but Netscape doesn't.
11. The default background color of an applet is the same grey as most browser default backgrounds.
12. Text or images can be inserted between the <applet> and </applet> tags to show up only if the User doesn't have a Java-enabled browser.

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