The content, below, is from the IE 6 public newsgroup.

It appears that Microsoft is dropping support for Netscape compatible
plug-ins.  Although none of the information below is coming directly from
Microsoft, it is coming from plug-in authors who received the information
from Microsoft.

	--- Noel

"Andrew Nosenko" <captain at meadroid.com> wrote:
> There is nothing confidential or obscured here, anybody can note that none
of
> Netscape-compatible plug-ins works with the latest IE6 Public Preview.
> Netscape plug-in model is described here:
> http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/plugin/basic.htm
> It's been supported by Opera 4+, Netscape 3+ and IE3.0 - 6.0
PublicPrevew1.
> IE6.0 PublicPrevew2 silently ignores them - sad but true. However, IE6.0
PublicPrevew2
> still supports <EMBED> tag, but for registered MIME Player ActiveX
controls.
> More info on MIME players:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/activex/registration.asp
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q165/0/72.ASP
>
> --
> Regards,
> Andrew Nosenko,
> Mead & Co Limited.
> ==================
> Plug IE ActiveX into Netscape and Opera:
> http://www.meadroid.com/neptune/

"Jerry Mead" <jerrym at meadroid.com> wrote:
> We learned this as part of our discussions with Microsoft about our own
> plug-in Neptune.
>
> But I doubt if it is specifically stated anywhere yet, and we probably
> shouldn't be talking about it anyway.
>
> However it has been confirmed to us that IE's support for
> Netscape-compatible plug-ins has gone away and won't be coming back.
>
> Support for the 'embed' tag remains for components that are built on
ActiveX
> technologies.
>
> Jerry
>
> Mead & Co Limited

> "Ian Bartholomew" <news1 at iandb.org.uk> wrote:
> "Andrew Nosenko" <captain at ANTISPAM-meadroid.com> wrote:
> > Microsoft has decided to deprecate Netscape-compatible plug-ins for IE6.
> > There is no any sensible reason for that, but here we are.
>
> Have you got an online reference where that is stated please, and
hopefully
> which also gives details about what exactly is deprecated?.
>
> Ian