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- License:
- GPL
- Price:
- FREE
- Publisher Name:
- Caolan McNamara
- Publisher web site:
- http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/Packages/wvDecrypt.html
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XSwallow is a generic plugin for netscape 3 and netscape 4. XSwallow is a generic plugin for netscape 3 and netscape 4 that allows any X program or command line utility to handle embedded mimetypes in webpages, e.g vrml/mpeg/wav etc.So a mime type like vrml for which there does not exist, as of the moment, a plugin for linux netscape can be viewed inline to netscape using any ordinary vrml viewers such as vrweb/liquid reality. It also has all the abilities of mimeplugin (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/plugins/) by Carl Shimer (harshaw@WPI.EDU) & Michael J Long (mjlong@mindspring.com) on which XSwallow is based and can be therefore be used to handle mimetypes that are handled by programs with no graphical interface, audio formats for example.For installation follow these steps:put xswallow.conf in ~/.netscape put xswallow.so in ~/.netscape/plugins get vrweb and liquid reality and install put dispatch-vrml-c in your path and edit it for your site it is based on (and is a graphical version of) Requirements: · An set of X/console/interfaceless programs that can handle a various mimetype · The xswallow plugin for your platform, or source. · Netscape3.01 (watch out for a netscape 3 bug though) and the entire 4 series to date (
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