Useful Plugins for using HGfL
What is a 'plugin' anyway?
In the context of using the World-Wide Web, a plugin is a small program
which is added to your Internet browser (often Internet Explorer or Netscape)
to extend the capability of the browser to perform a certain task. Such
tasks may include:
- showing video clips within a web page
- playing audio clips within a web page
- viewing animations
- viewing certain types of files (such as an Adobe Acrobat PDF document)
Plugins are generally available for both Internet Explorer or Netscape
and Windows, Mac and other operating systems (see Special
Note below).
What sort of plugins will I need to use HGfL?
To use the majority of pages on HGfL you will not need to have any plugins
as most of the pages do not contain multimedia content. Examples of where
you will need plugins are:
Special Note: Hertfordshire OS Maps
These service requires particular programs to be installed on
your computer and has other restrictions as detailed below:
- The Hertfordshire OS Maps application
requires a small program to be installed on each computer that the application
is used on.
- This program handles the special Ordnance Survey map data so that
it can be displayed in Internet Explorer - note that this program does
not work in Netscape.
Test Your Plugins
We have prepared a special page which will enable
you to test your plugins.
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