Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

PLUGINURL — NN 4 IE n/a HTML n/a

Synopsis

PLUGINURL=”URL"

Optional

Navigator 4 introduces the power (a feature called Smart Update) to allow somewhat automatic installation of browser components. If a user does not have the necessary plugin installed for your EMBED element’s data type, the PLUGINURL can point to a Java Archive (JAR) file that contains the plugin and digitally signed objects to satisfy security issues surrounding automatic installation (via Netscape’s Java Installation Manager). A JAR file is both digitally signed and compressed (very much along the lines of a .zip file), and is created with the help of Netscape’s JAR Packager tool.

You can include both the PLUGINSPAGE and PLUGINURL attributes in an EMBED element’s tag to handle the appropriate browser version. Navigator 2 and 3 respond to the PLUGINSPAGE attribute, whereas Navigator 4 gives precedence to the PLUGINURL attribute when it is present.

Example

<EMBED NAME="jukebox" SRC="jazz.aif" HEIGHT=150 WIDTH=250 
PLUGINURL="http://www.giantco.com/plugin/install.jar">
</EMBED>

Value

Any valid URL to a JAR file.

Default

None.