Hello,
The support of applets is declining. Chrome and Edge doesn't support applets anymore. Firefox will stop supporting applets at the end of 2016.
And Oracle / Sun will deprecate applets in Java 9.
Maybe Fedict can start a project in order to develop a Java Web Start application that reads the eID cards.
So instead of loading an eID applet, the user clicks on the Java Web Start application link (eid_webstart.jnlp).
This link start the application that show the same popup as the eID applet (the popup showing "Please insert your eID card").
Regards,
Johan De Schutter