Plug-ins & Fonts with Web Browsers.

Computing & Information Services Department.
instructor: jim.cerny@unh.edu

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This course was offered for the first time on April 9, 1998. There are no immediate plans to offer it again.

Internet: Web Graphics Not currently scheduled. Last offered Oct 5, 1999, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Ham-Smith 3. Description: This is a review of plug-ins and font technologies availabe to expand the power of your browser. Both Netscape and Microsoft browsers are covered. We look at plug-ins for graphics, audio, VRML, video, and TrueDoc and WEFT for fonts. Prerequisite: Basic use of a browser. Instructor: Jim Cerny

This is the outline from the last live course offering. It is available both as a basic HTML document (converted from a Word document by MS Internet Assistant) and as an Adobe Acrobat document (converted from a Word document by Acrobat Exchange).

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URLs Used in Class Discussion.

Plug-ins usage.

• Sample Apache Web server MIME-types file.
• Acrobat usage information.
• Beatnik by Headspace - view source (groovoid).
• Cosmo VR galleries - see Devonian Garden.

  Font usage.

• Fonts demo: inline GIF and FONT tag - view source (Simple Start).
• Bitsream dynamic downloadable fonts (PFR).
• PostScript for Phrase «the letter "A"».
• HexWeb Typograph tool for TrueDoc fonts.
• Microsoft CSS demonstration pages.
• Microsoft WEFT demonstration pages.

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Useful references.

Plug-ins.

• BrowserWatch's Plug-in Plaza.
• Codec Central for video and audio.
• Netscape's Inline Plug-ins List.
• The 33 Best Plug-ins according to Lori Piquet in "Internet Computing" (5/97).

  Fonts.

• Adobe Acrobat and PDF.
• Bitstream's Font Navigator and WebFont Maker.
• Glossary of Typographic Terms by Adobe Type.
• HexWeb Typograph and TrueDoc gallery.
• ITC, International Typeface Corporation.
• Microsoft Typography.
• Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Technolgy - such as Microsoft ClearType.
• Why Windows Web Pages Have Tiny Text by Geoff Duncan.