Henri Sivonen wrote: > > 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.)
Actually I wonder myself about this. I only jave one site out of the hundreds i have bookmarked in Communicator that appears to use Java. That's the one site I have to use IE to get. > > > 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? I'm waiting on updating to 6.2 until Communicator 4.7.9. Netscape is supposed to fix the problem of Netscape6 taking over all of Communicator's preferences. Currently you can't run the two if installed on the same Hard drive (or same partition) > * Do you have a reasonably recent version of QuickTime? Is Quicktime 5.0.2 recent enough > * Have you verified (in the QuickTime Setting control panel) that the > QuickTime Plugin has been configured to handle QuickTime movies? yes > * Which version of Mac OS are you running? OS 9.1. G4-500 1.5 Gb system RAM 27 GB Hard Drive ATI Rage Pro AGP video > Does it have a folder called"Internet Plug-Ins" in the System Folder? Yes > Does that folder contain thefiles called "QuickTime Plugin" and > QuickTimePlugin.class? Yes > * 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? On the current version of N6 Ihave identical versions in plugins and the system Internet plugins Folder > * Have you installed an outdated and redundant copy of Internet Config? No have most recent copy > 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? Doesn't seem to help > > > 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? The are reports on some netscape groups that on PC's, that 6.2 hasn't changed much. The last version of Netscape6, I have been trying didn't. (Mac version) > > > 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. It was enough at the time it was designed. Granted they should have improved it as each new thing come out, style sheets, Java, and so on. But that was a decision netscape made. Most likely because they didn't have enough funds to keep programmers to keep it up to date. > > > 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.) To me a Web Browser is. If I receive a notice in an email of an update or an upgrade of a program I use. I don't want to have to copy the link. Close the email, then open Browser. Paste link in then go to site. down load the up to date. I want to be able to click on the link and zap I am in the browser and downloading the file. You should have one program to do all rather than having to depend upon having 2-3 different ones. Its silly to have to use one application of one, another for another , and then another for the last. It waste hard Drive space, plus it waste RAM use if you have to have more than one open at a time. Currently I don't have to worry about either. But, it hasn't been all that long ago I had to worry about both. This attitude that oh heck everyones got the hard drive space and the RAM lets waste all we can mystifies me. > > -- > Henri Sivonen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:275-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/america/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/message/default.htm
