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

[Rich Jordan]

On Oct 28, 5:05 pm, c... at wvnvms.wvnet.edu (George Cook) wrote:
> In article <hc9dav$lc... at online.de>, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:
>
> > In article <$R1PnQjZ0+1r at wvnvms>, c... 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 worked with the latest Mozilla/CSWB releases, it is so out of date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

The old CSWB Flash plugin caused a problem where the browser would
frequently lock up, or go into a CPU loop; I had to remove it from my
system.