—PLAYER USER'S GUIDE

 

Introduction

The 3Space Player is a web browser plug-in. For Internet Explorer on Windows, a plug-in is an ActiveX Control. For Netscape, a plug-in is a java interface to a special shared library. However, the HTML, JavaScript and XML code used to access the 3Space features is the same for the two browsers.

  • First of all, we will explain briefly how plug-ins work in Internet Explorer or Netscape.

  • Then we will describe the methods and properties of the 3Space player object.

  • The next step will be to create the HTML source code that launches a 3Space player object by hand.

  • Next, we will show some source code examples showing how to use scripting languages for programming the 3Space player from within an HTML page.

  • Finally, we will give a more detailed explanations on how Internet Explorer automatically downloads ActiveX controls and some remarks about security.