Re: spawning
by Thomas James Allen <tjallen(at)pipeline.com>
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Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:39:08 -0500 |
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goertza(at)fatalerr.com (Adalbert Goertz) |
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hwg-basics(at)hwg.org |
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At 12:40 AM 11/28/99 GMT, you wrote:
>Hi:
>While meddling/struggling with the LYNX browser, I got a message
>"Spawning is currently disabled"
>What is spawning?
>-- ** Adalbert & Barbel Goertz
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When web-browsing software calls another piece of software,
such as a plug-in, and "brings it to life", this is "spawning".
Thus, to play music, netscape "spawns" a live-audio player.
When IE wants to present real-audio content,
it "spawns" a real-audio player. And when you view
a .pdf file, your browser "spawns" an adobe acrobat reader.
And so on.
Hope this helps,
jimmy
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