Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Aditya Raman Bahl wrote:

> just taking off on this problem of plugins, I need to know the following 
> 	1. Is it possible to write one's own plugins for browsers such as
>          Netscape and IE....???

Netscape Navigator: yes. M$ IE: ???
You need the Netscape Plugin SDK, which is available from the following
address:

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/sdk/plugin/unix/

The "Plugger" plugin also comes with source. You may want to use this one
for a look under the hood: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html

> 	2. If not so then what is the reason ???

Writing Plugins seems to be rather complicated, but I might be wrong :)

There are quite a few plugins for Linux Netscape. See these links for
more:

http://www.linuxstart.com/applications/networking/web/netscapeplugins.html
http://www.canopy.com/linuxplugins.html
http://warr.lrt.mw.tu-muenchen.de/~mik/linux/plugins.html

> 	3. If so, then how does one "plug" it in and what are the issues
> associated with  re-compilation of the browser code, if at all there is any
> ???

You do not have to recompile the browser. Well, you can´t - there´s no
source code for the browser :)

All you need to do is to compile the plugin and copy it into Netscape´s
plugin directory. The Menu "Help -> About Plug-ins" will show you, if it
has been loaded.

Bye,
        LenZ


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