Java: Netscape v. Internet Explorer?

Hello all,

Just a quick question. I’m new to the world of Java so please pardon any misused terms.

I just incorporated a java script provided by a third party site (History Channel’s “This Day In History” box to be specific) into the page I’m creating. When I previewed the page in IE6, the “This Day In History” java script loaded fine. When I previewed the page in Netscape7, in place of the “This Day In History” box was an error and a link to download Java2 RunTime SE. I downloaded Java and now the java script for the “This Day In History” box loads just fine in Netscape.

Does anyone know why I had to download Java2 RunTime SE in order to view the java script in Netscape but not for IE (you know, the answer to this question may also explain why my right-click disabling java script only works in IE.)? I’m wondering because I’m not sure whether or not I need to state on my home page that visitors need to download Java in order to view parts of my site (as I was planning on playing with a few other java scripts as well).

Thank you in advance for your time.

Most kindly,
Dawn

P.S. In case it helps to know, I’m using WindowsXP, FrontPage98, and the html for the java script I used is:

<table>
<tr valign=”top” align=”center”>
<td height=”161″><dl>
<dd align=”center”><br>
<applet codebase=”http://www.historychannel.com/showcases/” code=”Hpod.class”
archive=”Hpod.jar” name=”Hpod” width=”120″ height=”320″ hspace=”0″ vspace=”0″
align=”middle”>
<param name=”podinfo” value=”AID=1169438:?ID=545042::SID=1″><a
href=”http://www.qksrv.net/click-545042-1169438?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commission-junction.com%2Ftrack%2Ftrack.dll%3FAID%3D1169438%26PID%3D545042%26URL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fnetwork%252Ehistorychannel%252Ecom%252F“
target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.historychannel.com/showcases/x1.gif” border=”0″
alt=”JOIN”></a>
</applet>
</dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

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