Netscape Plugins
Volume Number: 12
Issue Number: 11
Column Tag: Internet Development
Netscape Navigator Plug-Ins 
How to Enhance Navigator's Features
By Keith McGlauflin, Sidney, ME
Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM orsource code disks.
With the release of Netscape Communications' Navigator 2.0, dynamic code
modules, called plug-ins, were introduced to seamlessly enhance Navigator's
functionality without altering its user interface. This article contains four sections:
an introduction to plug-ins and their installation, HTML tags for loading plug-ins, the
plug-in Application Programming Interface (API), and a sample plug-in.
Plug-in Introduction and Installation
Plug-ins provide a way for third party developers to enhance Navigator to
support other document types without requiring Navigator to launch helper
applications on the user's Macintosh. Unlike Java applets, plug-ins are platform
native, which means that a plug-in written for the Macintosh will not work on
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