It does say in the message that the zoom plug-in only works on the PC
platform, and also that the plug-in can conflict with security settings.
Both these are outside of my control I'm afraid. ER Mapper's Image Web
Server software is very effective but they only produce the plug-in for
the PC platform. In spite of having gaping security problems, MS Windows
in its more recent incarnations will allow network administrators to
stop users from downloading/installing browser plug-ins. This is one
case where working at home is easier, in that you can usually overide
the settings on your own computer. Here, however, the only way to get a
plug-in onto the University system was to have it installed as part of
the standard installation (which they did for me). So, a few interesting
lessons on providing web resources.
However, the rest of the catalogue works on any platform (although,
fondly as I regard it, Netscape is a crash-prone fellow at the best of
times). Of the two available zooming systems I looked at, ER Mapper's
was the only one we could afford, the Lizardtech (MrSid) one being more
expensive and less adaptable to use in batch mode which was important
for processing hundreds of images. It does not seem, however, to need a
plug-in. Various restrictions apply to the software until you start
paying serious cash (i.e. more than the entire project budget) so we
also have a 50 user restriction on the zoom facility.
Sorrowfully
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# Richard Higgins
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iain taylor wrote:
>
> It doesn't seem to like Macintosh either!
>
> Iain Taylor
> Halifax, NS
>
> Nick Millea wrote:
>
> > Dear Lis-mappers,
> >
> > This might well be of interest.
> > For the record, when I tried to access the maps from the
> > thumbnails, Netscape crashed.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Nick
> >
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