Is it an applet you wrote or an applet you found somewhere that could be useful?
Switching to .NET probably isn’t a viable option, since it’s already written.
But, if you don’t know what .NET is, you might not have written the applet.
What is the applet supposed to do? It might be worth your time to look around and see if there’s some jQuery, Dodjo Toolkit, or ExtJS plugin or widget that does the same thing with Javascript.
Getting Javascript to work and maintaining or modifying it is a lot easier, I’ve found, than writing, maintaining, and modifying a Java applet.
The applet was just one I pulled off the web somewhere. The applet was basically a simple “typewriter” type text applet, you know, prints text out one charactre at a time.
I’m thinking I may just need to either spring for Dreamweaver, or else sit down and teach myself Java....