applet working in applet viewer, not browser

i made several silly little applets that works fine in a applet viewer on my ide, but when i tried to load it on a browser, i would get weird results.

Code:

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    import javax.swing.*;
    import java.awt.event.*;
    import java.awt.*;
   
   
    public class Eyes2 extends JApplet{
   
    private int x2 = 198;
    private int y2 = 199;
    private int width2 = 15;
    private int height2 = 15;
   
    public void init(){
    getContentPane().setBackground(Color.black);
    }
   
    public void paint(Graphics g){
    super.paint(g);
   
    g.setColor(Color.white);
   
    g.fillOval(x2, y2, width2, height2);
    addMouseListener(new MyMouseListener());
   
    addMouseMotionListener(new MyMouseMotionListener());
   
    }
    private class MyMouseListener
    implements MouseListener
    {
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e)
    {
    }
   
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
    {
   
    }
   
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e)
    {
    }
   
    public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e)
    {
    x2 = 198;
    y2 = 199;
    repaint();
    }
   
    public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e)
    {
    x2 = 198;
    y2 = 199;
    repaint();
    }
    }
   
   
    private class MyMouseMotionListener
    implements MouseMotionListener
    {
    public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e)
    {
    }
   
    public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
    {
    x2 = e.getX();
    y2 = e.getY();
   
    repaint();
    }
   
   
    }
   
   
   
   
   
    }

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all this applet does is display a circle that would follow your mouse everywhere. again, this works perfect on the applet viewer, but on a browser, the circle doesn't move at all.

i've also made other applets, and one of them would appear on the site half of the time, and the other half, it would give me a blank page. can someone tell me is there something fundamentally wrong with my code?

Why are you adding the MouseListener every time you paint? That seems like a bad idea.

ok i fix that and put it in the init() instead, and it now works on the browser. but how come it previously work on the applet viewer and not on the browser?

i have this other applet that's works half of the time, and gives me a blank page the other half. again this works fine on an applet viewer.
i just recently started reading about java gui, so this program may seem a bit ghetto..

Code:

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import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;

public class PlaceOrder extends JApplet{
       
        private JPanel blank;
        private JPanel blank2;
        private JPanel blank3;
  private JPanel blank4;
        private JPanel blank5;
        private JPanel title;
        private JPanel quantity;
        private JPanel item1;
        private JPanel item2;
        private JPanel item3;
        private JPanel button;
        private JPanel taco;
        private JPanel cake;
        private JPanel fish;
        private JPanel total;
        private JTextField qty1;
        private JTextField qty2;
        private JTextField qty3;
        private JTextField totalField;
        private JTextField totalTime;
        private JPanel name;
       
        public void init(){
               
                buildBlank();
                buildBlank2();
                buildBlank3();
                buildBlank4();
                buildBlank5();
                buildTitle();
                buildQuantity();
                buildItem1();
                buildItem2();
                buildItem3();
                buildField1();
                buildField2();
                buildField3();
                buildTotal();
                buildButton();
                buildName();
                setLayout(new GridLayout(9,3));
               
                add(title);
                add(blank2);
                add(name);
                add(blank);
                add(blank5);
                add(quantity);
                add(item1);
                add(taco);
                add(item2);
                add(cake);
                add(item3);
                add(fish);
                add(blank3);
                add(total);
                add(blank4);
                add(button);
        }
        private void buildName(){
                name = new JPanel();
                JLabel name1 = new JLabel("name: ");
                JTextField name2 = new JTextField(10);
                name.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
                name.add(name1);
                name.add(name2);
        }
        private void buildBlank(){
                blank = new JPanel();
                blank.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
        }
        private void buildBlank2(){
                blank2 = new JPanel();
                blank2.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
        }
        private void buildBlank3(){
                blank3 = new JPanel();
                blank3.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
        }
        private void buildBlank4(){
                blank4 = new JPanel();
                blank4.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
        }
        private void buildBlank5(){
                blank5 = new JPanel();
                blank5.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
        }


        private void buildTitle(){
                title = new JPanel();
                JLabel message11 = new JLabel("The Anxious Clown ***");
                JLabel message1 = new JLabel("Take Out / Place Order: ");
                title.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
                title.add(message11);
                title.add(message1);
        }
        private void buildQuantity(){
                quantity = new JPanel();
                JLabel message2 = new JLabel("QTY");
                quantity.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER));
                quantity.add(message2);
        }
        private void buildItem1(){
                item1 = new JPanel();
                JLabel message3 = new JLabel("skirt steak taco: ");
                ImageIcon image1 = new ImageIcon("cilantro cream2.jpg");
                message3.setIcon(image1);
                item1.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
                item1.add(message3);
        }
        private void buildItem2(){
                item2 = new JPanel();
                JLabel message42 = new JLabel("ice cream cake:");
                ImageIcon image2 = new ImageIcon("cake2.jpg");
                message42.setIcon(image2);
                item2.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
                item2.add(message42);
               

        }
        private void buildItem3(){
                item3 = new JPanel();
                JLabel message5 = new JLabel("fish and chips: ");
                ImageIcon image3 = new ImageIcon("fishchips2.jpg");
                message5.setIcon(image3);

                item3.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
                item3.add(message5);

        }
        private void buildField1(){//taco
                taco = new JPanel();
                qty1 = new JTextField(5);
                qty1.setText("0");
                qty1.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
                taco.add(qty1);       
        }
        private void buildField2(){//cake
                cake = new JPanel();
                qty2 = new JTextField(5);
                qty2.setText("0");
                qty2.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
                cake.add(qty2);
        }
        private void buildField3(){//fish
                fish = new JPanel();
                qty3 = new JTextField(5);
                qty3.setText("0");
                qty3.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
                fish.add(qty3);
        }
        private void buildTotal(){
                total = new JPanel();
                JLabel totalMessage = new JLabel("Total: $");
                JLabel timeMessage = new JLabel("Food is ready in: ");
                totalField = new JTextField(5);
                totalTime = new JTextField(7);
                total.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER));
                total.add(totalMessage);
                total.add(totalField);
                total.add(timeMessage);
                total.add(totalTime);
        }
        private void buildButton(){
                button = new JPanel();
                JButton totalButton = new JButton("Place Order! ");
                totalButton.addActionListener(new ButtonListener());
                totalButton.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
                button.add(totalButton);
        }
        private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener{
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                        int numTaco, numCake, numFish;
                        numTaco = Integer.parseInt(qty1.getText());
                        numCake = Integer.parseInt(qty2.getText());
                        numFish = Integer.parseInt(qty3.getText());
                        DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("0.00");
                        double totalAmount = (numTaco * 1.99) + (numCake * 3.99) + (numFish * 4.99);
                        totalField.setText(formatter.format(totalAmount));
                        totalTime.setText("30 mintues");
                       
                }
        }
       
       
       
       
}

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I'm not really sure why it worked in one and not the other. Maybe something to do with the number of times paint was called, or something. You could throw in a simple count and a print statement to test that theory.

As for your other program, I don't really know. Without an SSCCE, it's hard to narrow down the cause of the problem.

Also if you used arrays, you could simplify and shorten your code greatly.