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This may not be the most appropriate place to post, si I apologize in
advance.

I'm looking for commercial (or free) plug-ins for NetScape that allow
viewing of MS Word documents in their native formats.  The word documents
are version 6.0 for Windows.

These plug-ins need to be for the AIX version of NetScape.

Thanks for any info!

.taw

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I don't think plug-ins are available for any Unix version at the moment.
My copy of Netscape 2.0 (released) has a `About plug-ins' option in the
Help menu, but there doesn't appear to be a Unix plug-ins SDK available yet.

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> I don't think plug-ins are available for any Unix version at the moment.
> My copy of Netscape 2.0 (released) has a `About plug-ins' option in the
> Help menu, but there doesn't appear to be a Unix plug-ins SDK available yet.

Face it folks..  Netscape has gone 'DOS'..  The same market forces that drove
application developers to write applications for DOS (i.e. there are millions
more DOS machines than anything else) will drive plug-in developers to write
plug-ins for windows.  Since Joe Average won't be able to logically differentiate
between his plug-in/browser/os, Netscape with Windows Plug-Ins X, Y, and Z
will become 'Netscape' to most people.

--steve

  Hmm, I don't know if I'd blame Netscape.  They provided an open interface to
  their product (Netscape), its the rest of the world who writes the plug-ins
  (Adobe, WebFX, etc).

  It may be the interface thats the problem (the plug ins should be written
  in Java so they're portable), but I don't know enough about the API.

  Anyway, I agree somewhat 'cuz AIX does not have a single plug-in (or Java
  support for that matter).

  Jim O'Quinn

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> --steve

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Quote:>   their product (Netscape), its the rest of the world who writes the plug-ins
>   (Adobe, WebFX, etc).

>   It may be the interface thats the problem (the plug ins should be written
>   in Java so they're portable), but I don't know enough about the API.

>   Anyway, I agree somewhat 'cuz AIX does not have a single plug-in (or Java
>   support for that matter).

>   Jim O'Quinn

No.  Up until recently, Netscape only provided plug-in API support for
Windows and Mac.

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I fear Steve is right. The only hope for non-x86-win95 OS vendors will be
to sponsor ports of the plug-in development kits & the top 5-10 plugs-ins
themselves. If only plug-ins could be written in java .....

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  The policy of most of the plug-in developers regarding OS development
(or lack thereof for anything other than Windows) has always seemed
somewhat short sighted to me in light of the fact that UNIX & Mac
platforms dominate Web server market.  I don't think many web site
developers are going to take advantage of a plug in if they can't
evaluate the results on their server/development platforms.

  As for Java applet support, Apple and IBM need to get off their
collective arses and work with Netscape to get the ports done ASAP.
Personally I've never found it particularaly difficult to port software
from other UNIX environments to AIX, but the folks at Netscape seem to
feel otherwise.
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>  As for Java applet support, Apple and IBM need to get off their
>collective arses and work with Netscape to get the ports done ASAP.
>Personally I've never found it particularaly difficult to port software
>from other UNIX environments to AIX, but the folks at Netscape seem to
>feel otherwise.

Perhaps the problem is more with Sun than with Netscape.
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Right.  The Feb issue of RS/Mag reported that IBM has finally made a
deal with SUN to license Java.  I don't think Netscape has anything to
do with this.  SUN and Netscape both have an interest in JavaScript,
which is a whole other animal.

Stan
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