So now it's "either you develop with Microsoft tools and deploy on a
Microsoft platform or your web pages won't work with 90% of the browsers out
there"?  Wow.  Do the folks in Redmond take chutzpah pills every morning, or
what?  And let me guess - .NET will *only* work with IE, right?  So is it
going to be "use IE for 1/2 the Web, and use Netscape for the other half"???
Y'know, if I was the paranoid/conspiracy-theory type I'd think this was a
ploy by Microsoft to destroy the use of the Web, and confine people to their
desktops where MS wants 'em to be!  But no, I'm positive that can't be so...

I also noted that Microsoft has filed a request to have the appeals court
review a portion of the decision that sent the original antitrust suit back
to the lower court.  Microsoft is apparently trying to tie the case up in
knots long enough to get XP out without government involvement.  I'd like to
see the prosecution file a motion to restrain Microsoft from releasing any
new products or upgrades/new versions of existing products until the case is
settled.  THAT would certainly get MS's boxers in a bunch!

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel at devtech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:47 PM
> 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
> 
> 
>