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<DIV>On May 3, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Christoph Valentin wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">Imagine, you are the provider of a multiuser scene and you have two users, user A (let's call her Alice) and user B (let's call him Bob).<BR><BR>You have found your favourite server operator, Alice wants to meet Bob in your scene, but Alice prefers browser A and Bob prefers browser B. The server supports only one of both browsers.<BR><BR>Alice wants to meet Bob in your scene, but it is unfortunately impossible :-(</DIV>
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<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">[Russ Kinter]: Actually back in the day what you describe or want is EXACTLY what the old</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">VRML plug-ins using Java applet EAI achieved using Netscape Communicator's JVM or</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">Internet Explorers MS JVM.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">On my venerable 2001 system's desk top I have four short cuts all pointing to different instances</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">of Netscape 4.8 and by going to either my Deep Matrix client applet or V-net client applet I can visit</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">a multiuser environment with either Contact (which BTW still works incredibly well with Netscape's JVM ), Cortona 4 ( PG dropped Java interfaces completely ), CosmoPlayer or even older WorldView.</DIV>
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<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">In terms of Internet Explorer its just the double click of a registry file and I could do the same thing.</DIV>
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<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">In fact when I would get folks to test my Deep Matrix applet I would make a point of using CosmoPlayer</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">or Cortona, because my testers would always use Contact. Also CosmoPlayer for Mac worked pretty well for one tester using a G4 powerbook.</DIV>
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<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">This of course is all ancient history because the HTML browser's dropped their JVMs.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">Which is why I in turn have dropped HTML browsers in terms of VRML and go with standalones applications.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></html>