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

[Shorthouse, David]

Folks,

If the "gadget" configuration utility doesn't work for you (may just be my
bungled AJAX), please let me know via email your OS and browser version. I
have tested it in IE 6,7, FF 1.5, Opera, and Safari and it uses much the
same Google bounding box scripting at
http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/data/canada_spiders/gmapbounds.asp.
GBIF, FishBase & others have expressed an interest in this latter function &
I'd hate to be spreading around bad code.

David P. Shorthouse
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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Richardson, Ben
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:10 PM
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Cc: Lander, Nicholas
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Google Gadget knock-off for taxonomic
resources(hostedimages, maps, etc.)


Anyone else having trouble making this work in Firefox?  I just get a
blank screen.

Cheers,
Ben

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David Shorthouse wrote on Tuesday, 24 October 2006 6:27 AM:

> 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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