Garth Wallace wrote: > > 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".
If that's the case why can't live connect be used in Mozilla so that Communicator plugins can be used? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 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> <http://home.kimbanet.com/~pjones/birthday/index.htm>
