An external viewer is an additional piece of software that "helps" your browser interpret and display specific file types that it doesn't have the built-in ability to do itself.
An application for viewing multimedia information, such as audio files, within Web pages. External viewers are available for audio, video, and virtual reality data, among many others.
An external viewer is an application called by a browser to display types of graphics, video or audio not otherwise supported by the browser. In Netscape Navigator, viewers are configured using the Helper Applications tabsheet of the General Preferences property sheet on the Options menu. In Internet Explorer, most standard viewers are pre-configured using File Type registration, which is accessible through the Options property sheet on the View menu.
Program used for presenting graphics, audio and movies while browsing World Wide Web pages via a Web client program. Helper applications is another term for these external programs.
A program used by Netscape or Internet Explorer cannot handle a particular file type internally. For example, .ps or postscript files. When You retrieve a .ps file it will pass the file to a postscript viewer and the viewer will display the file. External image A Web page image that the browser can't handle, so it passes the buck to a graphics program that displays the image in a separate window. See also inline image. Main ©1997, 1998 Webmaster JDC !-- setonclickmethods();
Software that presents graphics, audio or movies on the WWW externally to the client program: Also called a "helper application."
An external viewer is a software program, separate from the web browser, that allows you to view documents, images, sound or video. They include: Adobe Acrobat, JPEG Viewers, iTunes, Real Audio, and Windows Media Viewer.
a software program that a client calls upon to view file formats it does not support internally
A separate program used by a World Wide Web browser to display graphics or to play sound or video files. After downloading a particular media file, the Web browser launches the external viewer program appropriate to the type of file. In order for this to work, you must configure your Web browser with the names of the external viewer programs you have on your system. Another term for external viewer is helper application.
When referrring to a web browser this helper application is used to present graphics, audio and video.
A program used for presenting graphics, audio and video files. Programs that allow the viewing of GIF and JPEG files and the hearing of AU files fall into this category.
a program used by Mosaic when Mosaic cannot handle a particular file type internally. For example, .ps or postscript files. When Mosaic retrieves a .ps file it will pass the file to a postscript viewer and the viewer will display the file to the user.
This is the program used for presenting graphics, audio and video in Mosaic. Programs that allow the viewing of GIF and JPEG files and the hearing of AU files falls into this category.
A software program that Browser (like Mosaic, Netscape, etc.) calls upon to view file formats it does not itself support.
a software program that NCSA Mosaic calls upon to view file formats it does not support internally
An application program which is not built into a Web browser, but is used by the browser to display documents that the browser cannot display.