[Info-vax] VMS V8.3 (et al.) v. Netscape Navigator Gold Version 3.03

[George Cook]

In article <hc9dav$lc7$2 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:
> In article <$R1PnQjZ0+1r at wvnvms>, cook at wvnvms.wvnet.edu (George Cook)
> writes: 
> 
>> > For some things, Mozilla will have to be used.  What are the long-term 
>> > plans for Mosaic?  Presumably no Java or Javascript.  What about sound, 
>> > Flash plugins etc?
>> 
>> A year ago the plans for VMS Mosaic were to have V4.4 released by
>> now with basic style sheet support.  Now the plans don't go beyond
>> getting V4.3 zipped up and announced.  
> 
> Why the change?

My back refused to cooperate.
 
>> but a flash plugin and reasonably complete CSS2 support would not be
>> all that difficult to implement.  
> 
> Interesting.  I'm quite happy on VMS, but I don't want YouTube to be the 
> killer application which would cause my wife to ask me to buy some 
> hardware so that we can run a non-VMS browser.  I have several ALPHA 
> machines with sound cards; if a flash plugin were available (IIRC, 
> YouTube uses flash), that would be nice.
> 
> Is there a flash plugin for Mozilla/CSWB on VMS?

There is an old one, but I don't think it ever supported sound.
It is still documented at:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/cswb/cswb_plugins.html
but the download link no longer works.  Even if the plugin still
worked with the latest Mozilla/CSWB releases, it is so out of date
that it probably couldn't play any recent flashes.
 

George Cook
WVNET