Applet FX Thread not respecting order of runnables when loading FXML

Scenario :
- execute two tasks successively with Platform.runLater()
- first one loads a FXML and affects the FXML controller to an attribute
- second one accesses to this attribute

Platform.runLater() doc says "The Runnables are executed in the order they are posted. " so I'm expecting to have no problem accessing the attribute in the second runnable.
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/application/Platform.html#runLater%28java.lang.Runnable%29

When deploying as an applet I get a NPE. It didn't happen with all previous versions.

I'm posting the sample test right after this.

Certainly related to https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-33657
Here is the NPE stack trace :

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at application.TestObject$2.run(TestObject.java:31)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4.run(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._enterNestedEventLoopImpl(Native Method)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._enterNestedEventLoop(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.Application.enterNestedEventLoop(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.EventLoop.enter(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.enterNestedEventLoop(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.uitoolkit.impl.fx.FXPluginToolkit$FxWaiter.wait(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.util.Waiter.runAndWait(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.message.Pipe.receive(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.main.client.MessagePassingExecutionContext.getProxyList(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginProxySelector.select(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployURLClassPath$UrlLoader.getResource(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployURLClassPath.getResource(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.getResourceAsResource(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(Unknown Source)
    at javax.xml.stream.SecuritySupport$4.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.xml.stream.SecuritySupport.getResourceAsStream(Unknown Source)
    at javax.xml.stream.FactoryFinder.findJarServiceProvider(Unknown Source)
    at javax.xml.stream.FactoryFinder.find(Unknown Source)
    at javax.xml.stream.FactoryFinder.find(Unknown Source)
    at javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.load(Unknown Source)
    at application.TestObject.loadFXML(TestObject.java:49)
    at application.TestObject.access$000(TestObject.java:10)
    at application.TestObject$1.run(TestObject.java:19)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$4.run(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.access$100(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication$3$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)