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Question: What is a plug-in?

Answer: A plug-in is a link to an external application that handles embedded information in a web page.

Quick Time (from Apple Computer) is a plug-in that allows embedding movies into a web page. This interactive Quick time game was written with Live Studio.

This is a sliding tile puzzle.
The picture is the
IDtenT logo on the top of the page.
Finish it and see where you go!


A stupid little interactive game using Shockwave (Macromedia).


Question: Where can I get a certain plug-in?

    Answer: Netscape has a plug-in page that links over 170 different plug-ins that are available. You must download and install them before they are available from your browser.

Question: Why should I download plug-ins?

    Answer: You don't have to - but - if you want to take advantage of some of the media enriched web sites you must have the required plug-ins to view many of the pages.

Question: Why do all the sites that require Plug-ins so slow?
    Answer: Usually a Plug-in reads a file that is not text! The files are usually larger multimedia rich files that can be great - but there is a trade off with speed. My kids usually abandon www.zoogdisney.com way before it loads because many of the pages can take several minutes to download and run.

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