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Re: NetscapeII

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Tue Nov 7 16:04:58 1995

Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 09:37:00 -0800
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: nicolas@allmansland.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM


Hi Nicolas,

> Euhhh, I'm not sure it's the best place to ask but I've some problem while
> running Beta 1.0 Applets with netscapeII...
> 
> First problem, in the readme of this release, sun tells that you can put
> something between two <applet> tags to show something to other browsers
> but when I do something like this :
> 
> <applet code="test.java" width=100 height=100>
> <img src=pic.gif>
> </applet>
> 
> Netscape show my applet and the pic too !!

This should be fixed in the beta2 release of the Netscape Navigator.
It was released last weekend.

> And something different, how to tell (if there's a way) the browser
> to refresh the background. Since the introduction of the background tag
> (with netscape 1.1 I think, but not supported by HotJava) there may be
> something different than a light gray in my back !! so what to do ?

There currently is no way to deal with that. I've seen applets that
simply draw a background image over the light gray to match the page's
background.

> P.S. if there's a better place to ask for that, where ?

Try filing a bug with Netscape (check the Help menu), you may
win a T-shirt!

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff
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