SillyDog701

[mcow]

In the description of Netscape Communicator 4.5+ on this page:
http://sillydog.org/narchive/
one of the features listed reads: "Java plug-in support (from version 4.78)."

According to Sun's Java documentation, their plug-in works for Netscape 3.x and 4.x (Windows and presumably Linux) -- except that recent versions of the plug-in are listed as incompatible with 4.78/4.79. (The incompatibility is probably related to the new plug-in feature that hooks into the browser so the plug-in is called for an APPLET tag.)

What is the basis for saying that plug-in support only started with 4.78? As far as I can tell, NS3 is where support for the <EMBED> tag started, and that should be sufficient to run the Java Plug-in. What specifically changed in 4.78 regarding the Plug-in?

[Fulvio]

In the description of Netscape Communicator 4.5+ on this page:
http://sillydog.org/narchive/
one of the features listed reads: "Java plug-in support (from version 4.78)."

According to Sun's Java documentation, their plug-in works for Netscape 3.x and 4.x (Windows and presumably Linux) -- except that recent versions of the plug-in are listed as incompatible with 4.78/4.79. (The incompatibility is probably related to the new plug-in feature that hooks into the browser so the plug-in is called for an APPLET tag.)

What is the basis for saying that plug-in support only started with 4.78? As far as I can tell, NS3 is where support for the <EMBED> tag started, and that should be sufficient to run the Java Plug-in. What specifically changed in 4.78 regarding the Plug-in?

My experience in different areas is that Support means that someone knows something about it, while no support means that no one has any idea about it, and they can't help . That's why more and more ISPs will tell you that they are not supporting Netscape, or at least no NS above 4.79.
Here it may be the opposite. But, I have not had anything below 4.78 to verify what you are saying.