John Chambers asked about Macs: >Does the browser actually display the PDF? Or does it pop up a >separate window for the PDF?
On my machine Communicator 4.79 displays the .pdf in the browser window. Unlike most other plug-ins, PDFViewer starts the full application (Acrobat Reader) as well, but the .pdf files actually show in the browser, with the cryptic little AR navigational buttons inside the window underneath those of the browser. The same is true for IE 5.0 and iCab 2.8. My Opera 5.0 doesn't know how to open them, but I didn't experiment too much with fiddling with it to try to get it to replicate the other three. Macs and most unix/linux systems now come with PS and >PDF readers, and their browsers are pre-configured to fire up the >appropriate helpers. I can only speak for my own computer (an early iMac, rev2), but none of my four browsers open a PS file and either offer different options for what to do with it (choose app or plug-in or download) or simply download it. I didn't try all possible apps for opening the sample I downloaded from the Tunefinder, but the handful of what seemed the likeliest didn't work - unless one counts the QuickTime MoviePlayer's "slide show" of the code, line by line; interesting after a fashion for someone with as low an interest threshold as myself but not very musically enlightening. I've thought of downloading a PS viewer just on general principles, but since I haven't ever needed one I haven't gone to the trouble. John ******* John McChesney-Young ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Berkeley, California, USA To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
