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The Netscape Programmer's Guide With CD-ROM

The Netscape Programmer's Guide With CD-ROM

The Netscape Programmer's Guide With CD-ROM

Using OLE to Build Componentware Applications
Richard B. Lam , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York
January 1996
Paperback
9781884842634

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    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

    January 1996
    Paperback
    9781884842634
    416 pages
    228 × 152 mm
    0kg
    Unavailable - out of print November 1997

    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.
      Author
    • Richard B. Lam , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York