Subject: Re: Management of Plug-Ins for MultiMedia E-Journals
Thea Bergere (t.bergere@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:57:45 -0400
Message-Id: <000e01bee455$5140b1e0$342bf7a5@uk6d0> From: "Thea Bergere" <t.bergere@mindspring.com> To: <arl-ejournal@arl.org> Subject: Re: Management of Plug-Ins for MultiMedia E-Journals Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:57:45 -0400
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999, Gerry Mckiernan <gmckiern@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu> wrote:
>
> _Management of Plug-Ins_
>
> As part of my overview/review of the Ramifications of Multimedia
> in Electronic Journals, I am greatly interested in learning about the
> management of the installations of plug-ins / helper applications to
> support the Multimedia in these journals in academic and research
> libraries/ institutions.
>
> I am interested in managing the plug-ins / helper applications
> for any and all types of multimedia found in these e-journals, notably,
> audio, video, animation, VRML, and animation., as well the management
> of plug-ins in general.
>
> For examples, see my M-Bed(sm) registry of embedded multimedia
> electronic journals at:
>
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm
>
> Are the plug-ins installed and/or maintained from a central server,
> or are they installed machine-by- machine? Otherwise?
>
> In general, what are the issues faced in installing and maintaining
> such plug-ins? The associated costs? Policy issues?
>
> As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, questions, or
> critiques are Most Welcome!
Dear Gerry,
There are many kinds of files that web browsers cannot display,
such as animation, sound, video - for these you need helper applications
and plug-ins. You must configure your browser to launch these helper
applications and plug-ins whenever you click on an object that needs
them in order to be viewed, such as a sound or animation file that the
browser can't run or play.
A web browser displays information on your computer by interpreting
the HTML that is used to build the home pages on the Web. Homw pages
usually display graphics, sound, multimedia files, links, files that
can be downloaded, and other internet resources. The coding in the
HTML files tells your browser how to display the text, graphics, links,
multimedia files, etc. on the home page. The HTML that your browser
loads to display the home page doesn't actually have the graphics,
sound, multimedia files and other resources on it. Instead, it contains
HTML references to those graphics and files. Your browser uses those
references to find the files on the server and then display them on the
home page. The web browser also interprets HTML tags as links to other
Web sites or resources, such as graphics, multimedia files, newsgroups,
or files to download. Depending on the link it will perform different
functions.
Good luck with the project.
Sincerely,
Thea Bergere
<t.bergere@mindspring.com>
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