Re: Netscape 6.01 terminally flawed

2001-05-11 Thread Mickey Segal
fuss was raised during the beta program such backward compatibility was added so that an applet signed using Netscape signing for Netscape 4.x would run under Netscape 6. I can't comment on Java to JavaScript communication since we do not use it, but don't give up on the ability to do basic

Re: Netscape 6.01 terminally flawed

2001-05-10 Thread Up-state NY, U.S.A.
Mark--I can't agree with you more.  And I can't possibly tell you how disappointed I was with my attempt at using Netscape 6.  I sent away for Netscape's CD rather than download the whole package.  Once installed, I found Netscape 6 to be: * Very slow (although it did tell me it needed a

Re: Netscape 6.01 terminally flawed

2001-05-10 Thread Carlfish
On Thu, 10 May 2001 06:18:47 -0400, Up-state NY, U.S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] somehow managed to type: Mark--I can't agree with you more.=A0 And I can't possibly tell you how disappointed I was with my attempt at using Netscape 6. Netscape 6 was a marketing decision. Netscape saw a series of

Re: Netscape 6.01 terminally flawed

2001-05-10 Thread Fabian Guisset
Up-state NY, U.S.A. wrote: Mark--I can't agree with you more.  And I can't possibly tell you how disappointed I was with my attempt at using Netscape 6.  I sent away for Netscape's CD rather than download the whole package.  Once installed, I found Netscape 6 to be: * Very slow

Re: Netscape 6.01 terminally flawed

2001-05-10 Thread Mark Dixon
Yeah well, it ain't finished. It was a mistake to release it. The latest open source release, Mozilla 0.9 is usable (0.8 was the first release that could be considered usable for anything other than testing sites) Don't think they've ironed out all the java issues yet though, and I _know_

Netscape 6.01 terminally flawed

2001-05-09 Thread Mark A Gregory
It has been posted that Netscape 6.01 is not Java compatible and prevents signed applets from running. Signed applets cannot communicate with Javascript on web pages. Netscape has released a product that breaks most applets being used today and prevents customers from supporting netscape on

Re: Netscape 6.01 terminally flawed

2001-05-09 Thread Alex
Mark A Gregory wrote: It has been posted that Netscape 6.01 is not Java compatible and prevents signed applets from running. Signed applets cannot communicate with Javascript on web pages. Netscape has released a product that breaks most applets being used today and prevents customers