title: Reduce HTML using Applets
body: <p>My supervisor has tasked me with programmatically reducing a website's content by looking at the HTML tags to reveal only the core content. Importantly, this particular piece of the project must be written in Java.</p>
  
  <p>Now having learnt about the differences between<code>Plugins, Extensions, Applets, and Widgets</code>, <em>I think</em> I want to use an Extension that calls a client-side Applet. My approach was going to be this: </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Using the Google-Chrome API, I was going to display a button that
  the user can click.</li>
  <li>If clicked, the action is to launch a new browser tab that has the
  Applet embedded within it.</li>
  <li>The applet automatically sources the called tab's HTML code and
  filters it.</li>
  <li>Once filtered, the reduced copy of the original site appears.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>So I have a few questions. To start, is it even possible to use an Extension with an Applet? Moreover, is it possible for an applet to look @ another tabs HTML code? If not, is it possible to just reload the original tab with the Applet now embedded within it and complete the function. Thanks.</p>