New installer for Cosmo Player in Firefox
Robert Lipman
When was the last time you heard the words "new" and "Cosmo Player"
used in the same sentence?
A few years ago I had a student develop a new installer for Cosmo
Player that would work with Firefox. It does work, but it was never
thoroughly tested so we never released it.
It's now available at http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cosmoplayer.html Go to
the section about Firefox and Automatic Installation.
Let me know if it works for you.
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Bob Lipman
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al
Worked perfectly for me on Firefox 2.0.0.2 on XP SP2 machine.
Alex
PS: Would be nice to revive this and add X3D capabilities :-)
al
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Russ
> Hi,
>
> When was the last time you heard the words "new" and "Cosmo Player"
> used in the same sentence?
>
However I am not sure what the big deal is. Having taken the stupid
VRML plugin tricks course taught by Rev Bob at Miskatonic U, I simply
copied over the npcosmop211.dll from my Netscape plugin folder into
Firefox's and it worked. No installer needed.
tc
Russ KInter
> A few years ago I had a student develop a new installer for Cosmo
> Player that would work with Firefox. It does work, but it was never
> thoroughly tested so we never released it.
>
> It's now available athttp://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cosmoplayer.html Go to
Robert Lipman
> On Aug 24, 5:40 pm, Robert Lipman <robert.lip...@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi,
>
> > When was the last time you heard the words "new" and "Cosmo Player"
> > used in the same sentence?
>
> Thanks Bob,
> However I am not sure what the big deal is. Having taken the stupid
> VRML plugin tricks course taught by Rev Bob at Miskatonic U, I simply
> copied over the npcosmop211.dll from my Netscape plugin folder into
> Firefox's and it worked. No installer needed.
The big deal is 99% of the users out there don't have a Netscape
plugins folder already, don't know about Rev Bob's VRML plugins
tricks, and wouldn't know how to copy npcosmop211.dll from one folder
to another. They just want something that works the first time with
one click.
Russ
Actually they don't need a Netscape plugins folder. The
"npcosmop211.dll" exists in The "C:\Program Files\CosmoSoftware
\CosmoPlayer" directory -along with the EAI archives.
BTW 99% of people aren't going to be using Cosmo anyway.
>and wouldn't know how to copy npcosmop211.dll from one folder
>to another.
That's pathetic.
tc
Russ Kinter
al
> BTW 99% of people aren't going to be using Cosmo anyway.
Oddly enough, the majority of vrml browsers that hit my site are Cosmo,
then Blaxxun and distant third is Cortona. I'd really like to see a new
browser such as Octaga or Flux player being used but I've tested both
and neither work with my code; they're buggy.
I also believe that the easier it is to install a plugin/browser the
greater the chance of adoption of the technology by non-techies. Look
at Flash for instance.
Alex
simon
> and neither work with my code; they're buggy.
>
in my experience its actually most vrml that is the problem, being
developed by a such-it-and-see methodology has resulted in code that
will only work when the bugs in the browser being used for testing are
present. Cosmo was/is pretty good as far as this goes, Blaxxun isn't
so hot on compliance, seems the effort is put into speed and advanced
features!
steve
>
> in my experience its actually most vrml that is the problem, being
I so much agree.
We develop a world that plays up to our favorite browsers strengths and
then moan when it doesn't migrate.
They say Octaga is very fast but I can't find any docs on their SAI.
S
Robert Lipman
>
> When was the last time you heard the words "new" and "Cosmo Player"
> used in the same sentence?
>
> A few years ago I had a student develop a new installer for Cosmo
> Player that would work with Firefox. It does work, but it was never
> thoroughly tested so we never released it.
>
> It's now available at http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cosmoplayer.html Go to
> the section about Firefox and Automatic Installation.
After doing some more testing, the new installer seems to work for
Internet Explorer too. YMMV
fabricator
the CosmoWorlds install. Something in Windows XP SP2 breaks the
installer.
One thing though, it does assume you have one of those zip apps that
offers to run setup programs it finds in archives. Not all of them do,
so perhaps add instructions on how to extract the setup.exe from the
zip.
Nice work by your unnamed student.