John Atchley wrote:
>On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Robert Bley-Vroman wrote:
>
>> I have now added this <IFRAME> alternative to my test file at:
>>
>> http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/esl/bley-vroman/contra/dances/testobj.html
>>
>> If others want to try, it would be interesting to hear about the results.
>
>Netscape 4.7 (on linux) didn't display any of the objects, and like
>John's iframe example, displayed a message "since iframe failed,
>click here" and "here" is a link to the abc file. Unlike John's example,
>when I clicked the link Netscape didn't know how to display the file
>(since it was sent with a mime type of text/vnd and I haven't configured
>Netscape to deal with that) and wanted to download the file instead of
>displaying it.
>
>Not having netscape configured to recognize text/vnd might be why
>none of the object examples worked, come to think of it.
>
I don't think so. Netscape 4.6 on the Mac does the same thing, and
I do have it configured to deal with text/vnd.abc. (Mind you, I
have it configured to download the file and start up BarFly to display
it externally, so it's possible that that's what's interfering with
the object displays.)
Phil Taylor
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