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In article <7i6q7v$lr813@forums.borland.com>, kshakir@prosys.com.pk 
says...
> this code work fine with appletviewer and Internet Explorer, but not in
> Netscape Navigator 4.51. the url return null. Is this a bug in Netscape,
> 
> 

I don't know enough about the internals of the browser implementations to 
give a definitive resply, but it sounds like IE and NS don't provide 
identical functionality in this area.  IOW something is probably not WAD, 
and one or other does not conform to a standard.

Is it possible you have found yet another security restriction on 
applets?  AppletViewer seems to ignore many restrictions, and I wouldn't 
be surprised if IE ignored or allowed the restrictions to be disabled at 
least partially.

For an untested workaround, try including the GIF as a standalone file so 
it doesn't have to be extracted.  This shouldn't cost anything at 
download as GIFs are already compressed, and don't get significant 
compression.  If this works you've proved you hit an difference in 
implementation in the browsers.

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pf