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

[Timothy M. Jones]

The Google Earth Stuff is incredible.  Curious how you are driving the 
markers, XML?
Tim











Shorthouse, David wrote:
> Folks,
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> 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.
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> To see this in action, click a "Link It" button on the following page:
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> http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/data/spiders/18757
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> 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).
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> David P. Shorthouse
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