Hi,

My wife has a PowerBook G4 running OS 10.3.9, and Safari 1.3.2, with the
latest updates installed.  When accessing via the web a Remotelink
application (to view video content--echocardiograms), she can only get the
still frames.  It can't be for Windows machines only.  The web help page
says that Mac users have to have the Java 1.4.1 plugin in order to run the
video: 

"Macintosh Users

If you are using a Macintosh computer, the secure gateway works with the
Safari browser.

To determine if your machine has the Sun JVM:

Launch the Safari browser.
>From the Help menu, choose Installed Plug-ins.
Look for the Java plug-in icon. Note that you may have Java 1.3.1, but make
sure that you also have at least Java 1.4.1. If you do not have the plug-in,
then you need to install it."  (It also said elsewhere that it won't work
with Mozilla; in Firefox, I couldn't even get the still images.)

Looking in Safari>Help>Installed Plug-ins, a list of plug-ins and there are
no icons, but rather a long list of plugins in section.  Among them is a
section, "Java Plug-in for Cocoa" where it says Java 1.4.2_11 Plug-in
(Cocoa), and there is another section titled, "Java Plug-in" where it says
Java 1.3.1 Plug-in. Both sections list 2 MIME types.

I tried downloading J2SE50Release4.pkg and Java142Update1.pkg and neither
would install (message said it can't be installed on that machine).  I ran
Applications>Utilities>Java>Java Web Start which is way over my head.  By
the way, in that same folder are Java Plugin Settings, Java 1.4.2 Plugin
Settings and Java 1.3.1 Plugin Settings.  When I opened Java Plugin Settings
1.4.2, I got a preferences dialogue that did not appear to provide any
guidance or settings for being used in Safari.

In Safari>Preferences>Security>Web Content, all boxes are checked except
"Block pop-up windows."

I couldn't find anything in the Apple Support section of apple.com or on the
Sun site.

So, it seems that the right plug-in is on the machine, but not installed or
working in Safari; therefore, she cannot see the video of the
echocardiogram. There is no error message from the Remotelink web page to
indicate that the browser is not compatible or anything else.

Just for laughs, I tried to access the Remotelink video on my G5 running
10.4.10 and Safari 3.0.3 and had the same results.

I'm stumped, so I am calling on the experts.  What can I do to fix this?

Thanks,

Robert



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