[Taxacom] Google Gadget knock-off for taxonomic resources (hosted images, maps, etc.)

[Shorthouse, David]

Folks,

 

Since a number of subscribers to this listserv host imagery, maps, and the
like on institutional and other websites, I thought I would pass along a
feature I recently designed in the Nearctic Spider Database that permits the
propagation of appropriate credit, site presence, and nomenclature when a
user wishes to lift imagery for their own web site(s). I took a hint from
Google's Gadget system and also permit configuration of these such that a
web page author may design them in real-time to best match their website's
look & feel.

 

To see this in action, click a "Link It" button on the following page:

 

http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/data/spiders/18757

 

For those of you who are web-minded, these "gadgets" are merely
dynamically-created JavaScript that download to the client browser. The
advantage is smooth delivery without breaking one's webpage should the item
be undeliverable, but the disadvantage is that the host must accept
JavaScript (rules out most blogs and forums).

 

David P. Shorthouse

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