However, despite codice_4 being officially a recommended tag, as of 2010, the support of the codice_4 tag was not yet consistent among browsers and Sun kept recommending the older codice_3 tag for deploying in multibrowser environments, as it remained the only tag consistently supported by the most popular browsers. To support multiple browsers, the codice_4 tag currently requires JavaScript (that recognizes the browser and adjusts the tag), usage of additional browser-specific tags or delivering adapted output from the server side. Deprecating codice_3 tag has been criticized. Oracle now provides a maintained JavaScript code to launch applets with cross platform workarounds.