Tarantella uses applets to authenticate users, render webtops, and to display applications.
The following applets are supplied:
These applets are used in HTML pages, which together with graphics
files make up Tarantella themes. For example, the X
emulator applet XDE.class is used in the HTML page
xde.html that forms part of the
sco/tta/standard webtop theme.
You can use JavaScript to manipulate applets. This enables you to create your own custom webtops or dispense with the webtop altogether. Launching applications from JavaScript describes how users can bypass the Tarantella webtop mechanism and launch applications when they point their web browser at a particular web page.
The emulator applets let you use applet parameters to override application object attributes, if you want to. However, you can only use this method to configure X and character applications -- you can't use applet parameters to change the way a Windows application behaves.
Note If you create your own themes, you must use the TTAAPPLET
element when you include one of the Tarantella applets.