Fwd: RE: NN fragment -- bad news?

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

CGM Open Members,

Greg's reply reinforces my evidence that NN 4.73 (as well as 6.0) indeed 
has the fragment handling bug.

His suggestions are interesting as well.  Comments?

Regards,
Lofton.

>From: Greg Gallant <gcg@micrografx.com>
>To: "'Lofton Henderson'" <lofton@rockynet.com>
>Subject: RE: NN fragment -- bad news?
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:10:03 -0600
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>[...] In our initial testing with NN, we found
>irregularities with the fragment.  I'm told these irregularities persist
>through version 6.  [...]  We have not developed a workaround for NN.
>
>One thing you all might consider is standardizing upon direct interfaces
>that WebCGM plugins support in a standardized way -- this would be via
>ActiveX for IE and via LiveConnect for Netscape.  If you have standard ways
>to "talk" to all plugins you remove yourself from being at the mercy of the
>browser developers who are always likely to break behavior in the next
>version.  Further, loading a page directly into a plugin is far more
>efficient then having the browser get a page, determine the mime type from
>the HTTP header, then hand the URI over to the plugin for the page to be
>retrieved again.  All those socket opens and closes are expensive.
>
>-gcg