Firefox/4.0.1pre SeaMonkey/2.1pre   
   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:   
   > In<4dad13c4$0$31725$c3e8da3$c14f6927@news.astraweb.com>, Steve   
   Wendt  writes:   
   >> James J. Weinkam wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Both of these readmes say that Java versions older than 1.5 will not   
   >>> work. As far as I can tell, the only java on my system is 1.4.2,   
   >>> installed by the eCS2.0 installer in g:\java142. Nevertheless, the new   
   >>> releases of both Seamonkey and Firefox seem to work.   
   >>   
   >> To be clear - you don't need Java to run the browsers.  The intent of   
   >> the readme file was to make it clear that the existing OS/2 browser   
   >> plugins for Java no longer function.   
   >   
   > I checked and found that FF4 fails to support IBM supplied Macaw.avi,   
   Rocket.mpg   
   > and Clock.class.   
   >   
   > It supports animated gif.   
   >   
   > PmWFX supported all of these and printing without falling over, so what is   
   the   
   > benefit of FF4?   
   >   
      
   Those were only supported through plugins, the MPlayer plugin might also    
   support them.   
   FF4 natively supports VP8 which many youtube videos use and Theora which    
   is also used by some web sites such as Wikipedia.   
   Dave   
      
      
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