Re: CDF browser plugin and Wolfram library archive
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- Subject: [mg118069] Re: CDF browser plugin and Wolfram library archive
- From: George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:07:07 -0400 (EDT)
The performance of the plug-in in Safari is acceptable -- pretty good once the plug-in has loaded, actually. It is a matter of taste, but I find it useful when looking at demonstrations from the wolfram site. With previous versions, I would end up downloading promising files that turned out to be less than expected. For anything else, I usually just want to download the file. Fortunately, the plug-in is easy to turn off in Safari. george On Apr 9, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Helen Read wrote: > On 4/9/2011 7:13 AM, George Woodrow III wrote: >> >> I agree that it is not user-friendly -- mostly a wast of time to load the file in the browser when all you want it to save it. >> >> george > > Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm so far not really seeing the point > of the browser plug-in. It is extremely slow for the plug-in to start up > and open a file in the browser, often to the point of hanging or even > crashing Firefox. And I don't really get why I would ever want to open a > .nb in the browser, when I have Mathematica installed. I'd like to > download the file or open it directly in Mathematica. For people with > the Player only, I can see opening up files in the browser plug-in, or I > suppose if people start commonly embedding CDFs into a webpage (a la > embedded Flash video), but other than that, I don't get it. > > I have set the .nb file action in Firefox back to the old behavior of > opening the file in Mathematica on most of my computers. It's still set > to open .nb files in the browser plug-in on our classroom computers, and > I see the students getting annoyed when they forget to do a right-click > Save Link As, and end up with the file opening up -- very slowly -- in > Firefox. We might change the setting the next time we re-image the > classrooms, but I fear it will sow confusion when students are working > on their own laptops (which will by default open .nb's in the browser > plug-in). > > > -- > Helen Read > University of Vermont >