What Are Netscape Navigator Plug-in Programs?
When Netscape first developed their Web browser, they decided they could never provide everyone who used it with every possible viewer for all files and they chose to open up their platform for outside developers. Netscape 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 have all been developed to support external file viewing with plug-in modules which were called helper applications in versions of Netscape prior to 2.0 (i.e., 1.0 or 1.1). These add-in programs let Netscape Navigator view files it normally couldn’t by using code written by other developers. (See the Netscape Navigator Components page in the Internet Resources section below for more on the functions of Navigator plug-ins and helpers.) • Locating and Downloading Netscape Navigator Plug-ins Netscape maintains a list of Navigator plug-in modules (see Internet Resources below). When you find a Website that contains a file that Navigator cannot view (for example, a realaudio file), and you try to view it, you will prompted with the following (or a simila
