Synopses & Reviews
Create interactive multimedia Web sites and build next-generation Web applications.
ActiveX Sourcebook is the complete guide to Microsoft's powerful new family of Web publishing and development technologies. This book will teach you how to efficiently create and manage interactive multimedia content on your Web site or company intranet using ActiveX tools and components, including.:
* The Explorer 3.0 Web browser
* The FrontPage development environment
* ActiveX controls
* ActiveX Server Framework
* Scripting languages for ActiveX, including Visual Basic Script
* ActiveX Control Pad.
The book will teach you the capabilities and commands of these technologies and supporting products, and enable you to:
* Create exciting interactive Web sites by linking and embedding ActiveX components
* Build Web multimedia pages and applications, complete with animations, audio, and movies
* Manipulate, customize, and even build high-powered ActiveX controls
* Learn new ActiveX client and server development architectures
* Support Internet conferencing with ActiveX technology.
ActiveX Sourcebook is the definitive resource for Webmasters who want to apply Microsoft's hot new technologies to their Web and intranet publishing and development efforts.
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Synopsis
Destined to give Java a run for its money, ActiveX is Microsoft's major new technology for the booming Website development market. The ActiveX Sourcebook shows both Web development neophytes and programmers how to create Web applications using Microsoft's ActiveX development tools and technologies. The book reveals the underpinnings of these new technologies and products, including the Internet Explorer 3.0 Web browser, HTML extensions technologies and tools to construct interactive multimedia Web sites with reusable ActiveX components.
ActiveX is Microsoft's answer to Java. ActiveX controls are reusable components that are the foundation of Microsoft's new family of Web development products. Microsoft is creating a major set of tools that will enable Webmasters to create and manipulate ActiveX controls and ultimately add dynamic interactivity to a Web or intranet site.
About the Author
TED COOMBS, JASON COOMBS, and DON BREWER are principals in Science Org, a science and engineering research firm specializing in software development and advanced technologies. They are the developers of the PowerSocket Library, the first WinSock programming interface, and are the authors of The Netscape LiveWire Sourcebook (Wiley).
Table of Contents
On Being HyperActive.
The Active Internet Model.
Web Site Development and Publishing.
ActiveX Scripting.
Exploring ActiveX.
dbWeb.
ActiveX Multimedia.
ActiveX Conferencing.
Extending Information Server.
Internet ActiveX Development.
Appendix.
Index.