Netscape Plug-Ins Developer's Kit

ISBN:0789708442
Pages:536
Date:1996-12
Publisher:Que
Rating:2.0

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Java applets may be the most popular way to build interactivity into Web pages, but Netscape's plug-in architecture (also supported by Microsoft's Internet Explorer) offers even more powerful capabilities for programmers to exploit. Popular plug-ins such as Progressive Networks' RealPlayer of Macromedia's Flash player demonstrate this. If you plan to develop your own plug-in, Netscape Plug-Ins Developer's Kit contains the information you'll need. Mike Morgan explains the basics of the plug-in architecture and describes common usages of plug-ins, then dives into implementation details: launching the plug-in, using Netscape's plug-in methods, and even endowing plug-ins with Microsoft-defined capabilities such as OLE and ActiveX. The book includes platform-specific notes, debugging tips, and a valuable section on known implementation problems./p>
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Contains many mistakes and leaves out a good deal
If you need to develope Netscape Plug-Ins quickly this book provides a fair overview of the Plug-In API however the information on Netscape's web site is just as good. The book contains a few walk through examples however many crucial steps have been left out that will cause confusion and frustration to a novice Plug-In programmer (the sort of person that the book was intended for). The author included his e-mail address in the introduction however when I tried to contact him I found that his email address is not valid. The text of the book appears hastily written and in several instances references are made to illustrations in the book that do not make any sense.

Java applets may be the most popular way to build interactivity into Web pages, but Netscape's plug-in architecture (also supported by Microsoft's Internet Explorer) offers even more powerful capabilities for programmers to exploit. Popular plug-ins such as Progressive Networks' RealPlayer of Macromedia's Flash player demonstrate this. If you plan to develop your own plug-in, Netscape Plug-Ins Developer's Kit contains the information you'll need. Mike Morgan explains the basics of the plug-in architecture and describes common usages of plug-ins, then dives into implementation details: launching the plug-in, using Netscape's plug-in methods, and even endowing plug-ins with Microsoft-defined capabilities such as OLE and ActiveX. The book includes platform-specific notes, debugging tips, and a valuable section on known implementation problems.