This document provides late-breaking or other information that supplements the Spicer Imagenation documentation.
Plug-ins are DLLs (Dynamic Link Library files) that extend the capabilities of your Internet/ Intranet browser. They are installed in the browser’s Plugins folder. Upon startup, the browser scans through the installed plug-ins. It extracts file information from the plug-ins and generates an internal table. If the browser encounters a MIME type or file format that it cannot handle, it checks the information about the installed plug-ins to determine if any of them will handle this new format. If a plug-in is available, the DLL for the format is loaded and a seamless integration evolves between the browser and the DLL. Once that particular file is no longer requested by the user, the plug-in DLL is unloaded and released from memory. A plug-in may be loaded several times within one page.