Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > Many plugins That Communicator can use, do not work in netscape 6 or > Mozilla because they use Live Connect.
This is true. It also is irrelevant to the claim that the W3C "banned" LiveConnect. > My understanding as stated on this very newsgroup is That "liveconnect" > was a proprietary code that "netscape used". As such W3C would not > accept for inclusion in W3C standards because it was proprietary to > Netscape. If showing up first in one company's browser meant that the W3C would not accept it, there would be no OBJECT tag in HTML4 (originally in IE), or SCRIPT tag (originally in Netscape), or even TABLE (Netscape again). > Netscape has since donated the code. W3C still hasn't seen fit > to ratify the code for inclusion. > Therefore if its isn't ratified, they do not recommended using. > > My take on the subject: If that's the case, if they don't approve it for > use it "must" be considered banned. Nope. They determined that it falls outside of their jurisdiction. Therefore they can neither encourage nor discourage its use. "Not recommending its use" is not the same as "recommending that it not be used".
