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Map Viewing Products

This section describes how your Web browser works with Autodesk
MapGuide Viewer to display maps.

Web Browser

A Web browser is a client application that reads hypertext data in the form
of HTML pages containing text, graphic, and programmatic content. Web
pages are usually posted on the Internet, an intranet, or an extranet. An
intranet uses Internet technology, but is used internally by a company or
other organization; information on an intranet is not available to outside
users. An extranet extends an intranet to outside users who have been given
access rights, such as customers who access a site with a password.
In addition to reading and displaying Web pages, a Web browser can also
perform file transfers using file transfer protocol (FTP) and run helper
programs, such as Autodesk MapGuide Viewer.

Autodesk MapGuide Viewer

Autodesk MapGuide Viewer displays a map in your Web browser when you
open a Web page that contains an embedded MWF or when you click a link
to an MWF.
Autodesk MapGuide Viewer is available in three versions:
A Plug-In for use with Netscape


An ActiveX Control for use with Microsoft


Windows systems
A Java


and with Microsoft Internet Explorer on Apple
can also be used on Windows, but we recommend that you use the Plug-
In or ActiveX Control instead.
All are available for download free of charge from the Autodesk MapGuide
Web site: http://www.autodesk.com/mapguide.
Note If you want to distribute maps without requiring that users install one of
the Viewers, you can do so using Autodesk MapGuide LiteView. For more infor-
mation, see the next section and the LiteView documentation.
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