Re: CDF browser plugin and Wolfram library archive
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- Subject: [mg118080] Re: CDF browser plugin and Wolfram library archive
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:54:40 -0400 (EDT)
But the difficulty remains that now with a Demonstration, you don't have any choice as to whether to view it in the browser or download it: you MUST first view it in the browser (if you have the plug-in) and only then can opt to download it. On 4/11/2011 7:07 AM, George Woodrow III wrote: > 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 >> > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305