INLINE PLUG-INS

API Application Programing Interface

The plug-in application programming interface (API) allows third parties to expand Netscape with native support for new data types and additional features. Plug-in API allows developers to build high bandwidth applications into your web server.Plug-ins are dynamic code modules, native to each Netscape platform. Plug-ins can work with architectures such as OLE and platform-independent programming languages such as Java. The primary goals of the plug-in API are:

Provide seamless new data-type support for Netscape users.
Provide the maximum degree of flexibility for plug-in writers.
Be functionally equivalent across all platforms.

The plug-in API supports four broad areas of functionality. Plug-ins can:

Draw into, and receive events from, a native window element that is a part of the Netscape window hierarchy.
Obtain data from the network via URLs.
Generate data for consumption by other plug-ins or Netscape.

A plug-in can retrieve a URL with the same network functionality as Netscape. The data from such a URL is provided as a stream as the data arrives from the network. Plug-ins can both produce and consume data. Plug-ins can produce data that Netscape or other plug-ins can display.

Lacy Wood
This web site is a project for LIS 385T.6
Electronic Delivery of Organizational Information
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Texas
May 9, 1996

INLINE PLUG-INS

API Application Programing Interface

Lacy WoodThis web site is a project for LIS 385T.6Electronic Delivery of Organizational InformationGraduate School of Library and Information ScienceUniversity of TexasMay 9, 1996

Lacy Wood
This web site is a project for LIS 385T.6
Electronic Delivery of Organizational Information
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Texas
May 9, 1996