Macromedia's Shockwave reports that Sixty percent of its users work on a Macintosh
platform. (Colligan MacWEEK) Macintosh users make up a large part of Internet traffic.
However, the Mac version of Netscape 2.0 was released with out the multimedia
capabilities that are available in Netscape's Navigator 2.0 for windows and UNIX. It also
does not support Java applets. "Mac offerings that do take advantage of Navigator's plug-in architecture are still few and far between. (Snell MacUser)" When Netscape 2.0 came out in February Mac users were limited to Tumbleweed Software's Envoy; Infinet Op's LightningStrike, which displays highly compressed images; Progressive Networks'
RealAudio; and a developer version of Macromedia's Shockwave for Director. (Snell
MacUser)"The plug-ins are coming, even though developers got off to a slow start when Navigator's Mac plug-in architecture was less stable than the UNIX and Windows versions. (Snell MacUser)" New and upcoming plug-ins for the Macintosh include: Macromedia's Shockwave for FreeHand; FutureWave's Splash; Adobe's Acrobat Amber; and Inso's WordViewer, for displaying Microsoft Word documents. (Snell MacUser)