Free Text Scrroller

If the SIRtext.jar is located in the same directory as its html page the complete code for the start of the applet tag would be:

<applet code="SIRtext.class" codebase="." width=200 height=200 archive="SIRtext.jar">

The codebase attribute is only required if your applet is not in the same directory as its html file.

If you use IE, you can click:

Tools - Sun Java Console

and see the error messages generated by the browser. In this case it just delivers a more elaborate message saying that it can't find the class file.

Note: if the class file in the jar is compiled with a package directive the tag would be:

<applet code="packagename.SIRtext.class" codebase="." width=200 height=200 archive="SIRtext.jar">

Good luck !

This code line :

<applet code="packagename.SIRtext.class" codebase="." width=200 height=200 archive="SIRtext.jar">

Implies that the java source file for SIRtext.java (that you don't have) starts with a package directive like:

package packagename;

and I'm quite sure it doesn't. I've seen the SIRtext applet on other sites, and it doesn't use a jar file, there the applet tag started like this:

<applet code="SIRtext.class" codebase="." width=200 height=200>

Just a note: Some months back I tried out an applet on different browsers, all went well except for FireFox, it seemed to me that it had some troubles with threads (parallel processing), and the SIRtext applet is definitely using thread(s).