In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> and improved interaction with Java.

Just out of curiosity: Why is Java interaction so important? I haven't 
yet seen a *useful* applet that couldn't be run in an external applet 
runner. (And I do like Java as a programming language.)

> They don't expect major features (in some platforms not all) to be
> broken or not turned on. i.e. Plugins on the Mac platform do not work.

Here we go again...

* Did you let the the Netscape 6.2 installer install the Flash plug-in?
* Do you have a file called Shockwave Flash NP-PPC in the Netscape 6.2 /
  Mozilla plug-ins folder?
* Do you have a reasonably recent version of QuickTime?
* Have you verified (in the QuickTime Setting control panel) that the
  QuickTime Plugin has been configured to handle QuickTime movies?
* Which version of Mac OS are you running? Does it have a folder called
  "Internet Plug-Ins" in the System Folder? Does that folder contain the
  files called "QuickTime Plugin" and QuickTimePlugin.class?
* If you don't have the Internet Plug-Ins folder, have you put the
  QuickTime Plugin manually in the Netscape 6.2 / Mozilla plug-ins
  folder?
* Do you have conflicting versions of the plug-in in the system Internet
  Plug-Ins folder and the Netscape 6.2 / Mozilla plug-ins folder?
* Have you installed an outdated and redundant copy of Internet Config?
  All the versions of Mac OS that Mozilla runs on come with the
  functionality of Internet Config contained in the system components.
* There is a file called "Internet Preferences" in the Preferences folder
  inside System Folder. What happens if you move that file elsewhere and
  restart?

> Obvious items that should be turned on such as Save, Save as, cut, copy
> and paste don't work (again in some platforms, or not at all).

On which platforms do they not work?

> Finally, In Communicator there is as much emphasis on one component such
> as Email, Client, and Webrowser.

One could say that the Web browser component didn't have enough emphasis.

> The Major reason why Communicator come out originally was to have one
> convienent package, in which one could read their mail, read their news
> and finally if they needed to go to the web they could do so while in
> same application. 

A Web browser isn't an extension of an email app. A Web browser is one 
app. An email reader is another. (Sadly, in the case of Mozilla and 
Communicator, they both have been forced in the same process.)

-- 
Henri Sivonen
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http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/

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