Netscape Good News

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

CGM Open Members --

It appears that the "#" fragment bug may be solved in
NN6.  Specifically, our principal technical liaison at Netscape
reports that the 6.1 browser release is good.  See attached
message

Hopefully, our vendor-members will validate this result soon.

Work and discussions continue about the 4.x browser, which is important
to large enterprise clients such as Navy and Boeing.

Regards,
-Lofton.

> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:58:35 -0700
> From: peterlubczynski@netscape.com (Peter Lubczynski)
> Organization: Netscape AOL-Time Warner
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2)
> Gecko/20010705 Netscape6/6.1
> X-Accept-Language: en-us
> To: Ulrich Laesche <ulaesche@allegria.com>
> CC: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>,
>    Dieter Weidenbruck <dieter@itedo.com>,
>    David Cruikshank
> <David.Cruikshank@pss.boeing.com>,
>    WhittakerHW@nswccd.navy.mil, Jeff Hooker
> <jhooker@netscape.com>,
>    Arun Ranganathan <aruner@netscape.com>,
> av@netscape.com
> Subject: Re: fragment-bug telcon summary
> X-RCPT-TO: <lofton@rockynet.com>
>
> Oh my gosh, this appears to be already fixed in Netscape 6.1! Except for
> the installer, the plugin works pretty good on the sample kit. It does
> exactly what you'd except (and NOT what Nav 4.x does) and I confirm in
> the debugger the plugin is being called on each new fragment. Unless
> there is objection from anyone, I will close those two bugs in
> Bugzilla.
>
> You can get the open source version of the build I tested here:
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2001-07-13-06-0.9.2/
>
> This may also be fixed in Netscape 6.0, but I have not checked. If you'd
> like more information about updating your installer for Netscape 6.1, I
> can provide you with what registry keys to look up and a readme. Also,
> Arun can help you get a branded Netscape 6.1 copy of the above build, if
> you like, since we have not officially released 6.1 yet. 
>
> Also, I notice you ship a .ZIP file. Netscape 6.x has gotten rid of the
> old built-in Java VM in favor of a pluggable one like from Sun. Because
> of this, scripting plugins through the old LiveConnect will not work.
> However, we have an easy upgrade path to XPConnect if all you want is to
> expose some methods to script. See this document:
> http://mozilla.org/docs/scripting-plugins.html
>
> -peterl

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