Extending the Browser

Features: Plug-Ins
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ADOBE ACROBAT READER
• It allows you to view documents created in Adobe’s
Portable Document. (PDF)
FLASH PLAYER
• It is needed to show and play animations.
REAL PLAYER AND QUICK TIME
• Real Player (developed by RealNetworks, Inc.) and
QuickTime (developed by Apply Computer, Inc.) allow you
to view or hear streaming audio or video on the Internet.
SHOCKWAVE AND ACTIVEX
• These are helper applications that offer opportunity that
offer animated objects, data, and computer code on web
pages.
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
AND FUNCTIONS
• CGI- Common Gateway Interface
• It is a program or script is any
program designed to accept and CGI and
return data that conforms CGI
specification. ASPs
• ASP- Active Server Pages
• Developed by Microsoft, ASP’s are
HTML pages that include scripting
and creating interactive Web
server applications.
• Java is probably the most famous of the
programming languages of the web.
Java is an object oriented programming
language similar to CC++. Developed by
Sun Microsystems.
JAVA/JAVA
• The java motto: “Write once: run APPLETS
anywhere”
• Javascript is a small program
embedded within HTML page, or called
externally from the page, to add
interactivity.
JAVASCRIPT/
JSCRIPT
• VRML-Virtual Reality Modeling
Language
• It allows for the creation of the three
dimensional worlds. These may be
linked from web pages and displayed
with a VRML. VRML
• XML- eXtensible Markup Language is a
web page creation language that
enables designers to create their own
customized tags to provide
functionality not available with HTML
XML
REAL TIME COMMUNICATION
• Text, audio, and video communication can occur in
real time on the Web. This means capability allows
you to hold conference and collaborate with other
Web users in real time.
List of collaborative tools.
• Audio
• Video
• File transfer
• Chat
• Whiteboard
• Document/application sharing
• Collaborative web browsing
'Plug-ins' are optional software additions that
enhance and/or add functionality to a web
browser.