A well known problem with Java Applets in webpages is that browsers ignore the z-index of the applet tag vs. other components in the page. No matter how you position and z-index elements in the page, applets will draw themselves on top of everything.
There is a workaround, known as the iframe shim, as described here: http://www.oratransplant.nl/2007/10/26/using-iframe-shim-to-partly-cover-a-java-applet/.
However, this workaround does not work in Safari 3 or 4 in Windows (assuming the same for Mac).
Does anyone know a way to make it work in Safari?
Does anyone have ideas about how to pressure Sun to fix the underlying problem so we can avoid clumsy shims? Here is a bug report on the issue, http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6646289, notice that it has been open for a year, however other bug reports go back many many years.
This is so frustrating, don't Sun understand that this is the very sort of thing that has marginalized Java as a way of doing cool stuff in the browser? I love you Java, but you are not helping your situation...
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