John Resig ported Processing to JavaScript. Well, not everything thats written with processing will work with his library but it should be interesting for browser only applications which had been running as an applet.
http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/
The last Java 6 update by apple only runs on intel macs with 64 bit processors (core 2 duo) and OS 10.5 intalled. Developers working on a 32 bit mac could check this open source project: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte
” SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. [...]
