> In this case my numbers [...] came from directly measuring many
> millions of visitors to Wikipedia.
Niiice argument. Do you have details (or a link thereto)? I confess, I'd
have questioned your statement (a little less belligerently), had not
DonDiego beat me to it.
> While the geekerati still hate Java, [...]
I think this mainly a thing of the past. It's FOSS goodness now, and the
alternatives are much worse.
Still, I fear that the decline of the Java applet will only accelerate.