In reply to Paul Schwebel's words, written Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:45:38 -0700
(PDT)

I just fired up Mozilla (running MDK8.0) and that works just A-OK on the site.
Paul

>Yesterday, I was trying to show of the 'better' OS
>(Mandrake 8.1) to my daughter, who is a major Harry
>Potter fan. We went to the Warner Brother's site
>(http://www.harrypotter.com) to 'enroll' in Hogwarts
>and go to the Quidditch practice pages. But I kept
>getting told that I had to install Flash and
>Shockwave. I checked the plugins on the browser (I
>tried both Netscape and Mozilla (and Konqueror for
>that matter)) and they appeared to be installed, but
>still not working.
>
>I tried installing from macromedia's website, but that
>effort kept crashing the browser.
>
>Which leads me to the questions: 
>
>1. What browsers in Linux support Flash and Shockwave?
>2. Why didn't the installed plugins work? Version
>conflict?
>
>I'm trying to convert the family to Linux, but with
>demonstrations like these, I just proved to my
>daughter that things work more smoothly in Windoze.
>Yuck.
>
>-Paul "Well, how did I get here?" Schwebel
>
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