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Bill,
> Is it simply old news re-surfacing, or did MS really pull the plug(in) on
> the Netscape API?
It's not al that clear yet. From reading the IE6 beta group there does
appear to be some substance to the story and the associated effect on the
non-standard <embed> tag. There's a bit of doubt about what this will
actually mean though. I did hope to get a proper answer to my newsgroup
question, especially as the MS IE6 team sometimes post there, but the two
replies you gave a link to were the only responses I got - no private
e-mails.
PP2 (2479.0006) is apparently the first version of IE6 in which plug-ins
don't work, although Andy reports that they do work on XP?. There are also
other vague rumours that later betas do work as expected but as these are
only available to beta testers behind a non-disclosure nobody is really
sure.
The plug-in that is generation the most questions in the beta group is
Apples QuickTime. There are rumours (that word again) that Apple have
released a patched version that works with PP2 but, again, finding details
is difficult.
Wait and see seem the operative words.
Ian
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