Javascript to Plug-in communication in Netscape 6

Question

I have a JApplet that display properly in Netscape 6 (thanks to the embed tag) using the Sun plug-in 1.3.1_01a.
But I cannot control it via Javascript.
I've read here http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/docs/script.html that
"This mechanism permits applets to be accessed from Javascript within Internet Explorer. Unfortunately the current Netscape Plug-in APIs do not permit scripting of Plug-ins within Netscape Navigator. However Sun and Netscape are working together to implement a new interface ("OJI") that will permit full scripting of Java Plug-in in future releases of Netscape Navigator."
It is dated from April 2001.
Does anybody knows if there is a solution now ?

Answer 1

Your answer really confuses me.
My applet is encapsulated in an OBJECT tag if the browser is IE, or an EMBED tag if the browser is NS. The applet has a public SetText() method.
The problem appears when I invoke Applet's method using JavaScript, like this:
javascript:document.applets[0].SetText()
It works fine with IE. And not with NS (although the applet displays properply in both cases).
What confuses me is this:
"Netscape 6.x uses the APPLET tag" : I've tried the JavaScript:
javascript:alert(document.applets.length)
it says "0" ...
And with
javascript:alert(document.embeds.length)
it says "1"...
So I think NS uses the EMBED tag, not the APPLET tag.
I'm using NS 6.2 and IE6 both with Sun plugin 1.3.1_01a
Should I disable the plugin in NS so that it uses the APPLET tag?
And also what is this "seamless Win32 plugin from Sun" that I've never heard of ?