Microsoft removes Netscape support from IE; plug-in needs re-writing.

Andreas Raab Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Wed Jul 25 20:33:26 UTC 2001


Noel,

Thanks for the info. I had a tiny little bit of hope that this may just be a
beta thing. But I'm not surprised.

  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf
> Of Noel J.
> Bergman
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:47 AM
> To: Squeak Mailing List
> Subject: Microsoft removes Netscape support from IE; plug-in needs
> re-writing.
>
>
> 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







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