ALSO CALLED: Oracle Plug-ins DEFINITION: Plug-in applications are programs that can easily be installed and used as part of your Web browser. Initially, the Netscape browser allowed you to download, install, and define supplementary programs that played sound or motion video or performed other functions. These were called helper
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PRODUCT OVERVIEW:FreePharma® is a software plug-in that analyzes drug prescription information expressed in free natural language (written or spoken) and structures it automatically for subsequent integration in host applications.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:WinLIKE is the first professional Window-Manager for web browsers. With WinLIKE, web applications, websites and portals can contain little windows - like you are used to from your desktop.
PLUG-INS DEFINITION (continued): applications. However, these applications run as a separate application and require that a second window be opened. A plug-in application is recognized automatically by the browser and its function is integrated into the main HTML file that is being presented.
Among popular plug-ins to download are Adobe's Acrobat, a document presentation and navigation program that lets you view documents just as they look in the print medium, RealNetworks' streaming video player, Plug-ins definition sponsored by SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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