Most people remember RealPlayer as a bulky desktop application for Windows and Mac. But for a brief, shining moment, the company tried to put streaming media inside your web browser using a tiny Java applet.
RealNetworks saw an opportunity.
But there’s a forgotten chapter in that story: . real player java
They stripped down their core player, rewrote the rendering and streaming logic in Java, and released — usually packaged as a lightweight .jar file embedded directly into a web page. Most people remember RealPlayer as a bulky desktop
Every time you watch a YouTube video in your browser without installing a plugin, you are standing on the shoulders of those clunky, stuttering, 20kbps Java applets. 20kbps Java applets.