Populating applet text components

[Michael Hall]

I have just been coding an applet where I intended some slightly involved text to be pasted into a text component.
I found out as per [1] that a 1.6 update eliminated applet paste access to the clipboard.
In appletviewer testing I tried drag and drop and that seemed to work, so this seemed a reasonable other option.
This morning I uploaded the applet and tried to test there. Drag and drop did not work from either Safari or Firefox.
Does the browser provide a blocking layer that keeps the drag and drop from getting to the applet? If not is something wrong in the implementation that keeps it from working in the browsers.
Given that paste doesn't work this would be a nice substitute option to have working. 

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/kyle/entry/copy_and_paste_in_java

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