Pivot is a new GUI toolkit meant to compete with Flex and Silverlight, and is targeted specifically at Java applets powered by the upcoming consumer JRE.

In addition to security fixes, the new update will also make changes to how Java applets—Web-based Java applications—are handled and presented in Web browsers that have the Java plug-in ...

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

Problems running Java applets -- fix Users continue to report issues with running specific Java applets after updating to Safari 3.1. MacFixIt reader Hal Staniloff writes: "Can't load any Java ...