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[...] you are unlikely to use these elements very much — Applets

haven't been used for years, Flash is no longer very popular, due to a

number of reasons (see The case against plugins, below), PDFs tend to

be better linked to than embedded, and other content such as images

and video have much better, easier elements to handle those. Plugins

and these embedding methods are really a legacy technology, and we are

mainly mentioning them in case you come across them in certain

circumstances like intranets, or enterprise projects.

Once upon a time, plugins were indispensable on the Web. Remember the

days when you had to install Adobe Flash Player just to watch a movie

online? And then you constantly got annoying alerts about updating

Flash Player and your Java Runtime Environment. Web technologies have

since grown much more robust, and those days are over. For virtually

all applications, it's time to stop delivering content that depends on

plugins and start taking advantage of Web technologies instead.