The Netscape Programmer's Guide With CD-ROM
Designed for anyone interested in extending the Netscape Navigatorâ„¢ browser for distributed software development, this book explores the client-side programmability features available using well-defined Netscape APIs. Through numerous code examples, The Netscape Programmer's Guide covers OLE components, interlanguage calls between C++ and Visual Basic, CGI Web-form processing coupled with JavaScript and plug-ins.The Netscape Programmer's Guide also shows how to construct tools for non-Web related projects. It also includes step-by-step instruction on how components written in different languages can be tied together with the OLE functions in Netscape.
- Contains code for all applications in C++ and Visual Basic with accompanying CD-ROM
- Three appendices contain quick reference manuals for DDE topics, Netscape OLE automation, and Netscape plug-ins
- Comprehensively illustrates the details of hooking other applications to Netscape, the most popular WWW browser on the market
Product details
No date availablePaperback
9780138579548
416 pages
229 × 153 × 24 mm
0.59kg
Table of Contents
- 1. Overview of Netscape client APIs
- 2. Introduction to OLE automation
- 3. OLE automation tools
- 4. Using the DDE interface
- 5. Accessing Netscape through OLE
- 6. Writing protocol handlers
- 7. Interfacing to Lotus Notes
- 8. Custom MIME viewers
- 9. Netscape plug-ins
- 10. Graphing with JavaScript and plug-ins
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. DDE topic reference
- Appendix B. Netscape OLE automation
- Appendix C. Netscape plug-ins reference.