Enabling Netscape Navigator to Receive Script Events

September 21, 1998

If you've followed the instructions in Step 1, you should now have a Web page that can play embedded files in the Windows Media Player in both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Your ActiveX control can receive script events and play them back in Internet Explorer 3.x or later. You will need to add more code to get these events to work in Netscape Navigator.

Add the following JavaScript function between the </HEAD> and <BODY> tags. This code first checks to see whether the current browser is Netscape Navigator. If yes, a small Java applet (downloaded in Step 1) will monitor the Netscape Navigator plug-in for script events.

function RegisterEventObservers() { 
   if(navigator.appName == "Netscape") {
      var plugin = document.MediaPlayer;
      document.appObs.setByProxyDSScriptCommandObserver(plugin, true); 
      }
   }

You will need to run this code when the Web page loads. To do this, add an OnLoad event for the RegisterEventObservers function inside the <BODY> tag, as follows:

<BODY onLoad="RegisterEventObservers()" BGCOLOR="#000000" LINK="#000066">

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