The focus was on the release of Netscape 2.0 and its new plugin architecture which was going to allow third party developers to create powerful extensions called plugins to the Netscape browser. And create they have. Last February 1996, I reported a total of 17 available plugins, and most of those were beta, or prerelease versions. As of this writing, a mere four months later, Netscapes index of final release plugins contains over 80 different entries, including those which allow for the playback of digital video QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, etc.; the exploration of 3D space and objects; the display of and interaction with documents created with, for example, Adobe Acrobat, Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, etc., all within the Netscape browser.By and large, plugins are offered as freeware, and the majority of them have something to offer in the way of creating or viewing interactive CALL modules over the web.

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