aus dem langalist newsletter<br><br>With this release, Microsoft dropped support for the older proprietary Netscape "plug in" format. (See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q303/4/01.asp?id=303401&SD=MSKB<br>)<br><br>Both Microsoft and Netscape are moving towards adherence of<br>W3C standards for browsers, and the old Netscape Plug-In models are not standard.<br><br>One of the most widely-used old-style plug-ins was the Apple Quicktime player that supported the older "MOV" format used in Quicktime. Apple already has released a new Quicktime player that works correctly with IE5.5 SP2: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/  Other vendors using old- style plug-ins will most likely be releasing updates as well. (Thanks to reader Leo Feret for being first to send along a head-up about this.)<br><br>If you're feeling adventurous, reader George Gombos has a more complex, do-it-yourself fix that goes further, and allows IE to run other<br>PlugIns-<br>-- not just Apple's:<br><br>     I bet you have read about the MS IE 5.5 SP2 (and 6.0 beta<br>     builds available on the net, and the interim builds bundled<br>     with WinXP/2002 RC releases) inability of playing QuickTime<br>     Movie (QTM) flics in MOV format.<br><br>     The good news is Apple issued an ActiveX plugin fix, but it<br>     only enables QTM  in these IE releases, does NOT take care of<br>     the other Netscape-style plugins, because Microsoft<br>     *completely* removed support for all these Netscape-only<br>     plugins that do not include ActiveX extensions/plugs. So I<br>     found a fix... )<br><br>     Please take a few minutes to read all about it here:<br>     http://members.aol.com/axcel216/newtip21.htm#MI5S6F<br><br>     This works great with Win98 SE and ME + MS IE 5.5 SP2 and 6.0<br>     (haven't tested  on Win2000 or XP).<br><br>George's fix isn't particularly hard, but you have to be careful and follow all his directions. If you have good backups and enjoy pushing the PC envelope a bit, you may wish to give it a try. 8-)<br>--<br>Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at<br>Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386<br>--<br>Kustodenforum: Liste fuer den Meinungsaustausch von Kustoden<br>an osterreichischen Schulen.<br>Diese Liste wird vom Computer Communications Club (http://www.ccc.at) betrieben. Um sich aus der Liste austragen zu lassen, senden Sie ein e-mail an majordomo@ccc.at mit dem Befehl "unsubscribe kustodenforum" im Nachrichtentext.<br>