[WEB4LIB] Campus Pipeline

[Walt Crawford]

A little friendly warning, if this is true:

>While a link also can be made from Campus Pipeline to the library's web
>site, the library's page (and any resource selected from it) remains in a
>frame in which Campus Pipeline displays advertising.

Which will then cause some of those resources to fail because their own framed
implementations won't work within this kind of forced frame. (Speaking from
experience.)

I guess the information technologists are doing a Good Thing here: forceably
preparing students for a life in which EVERYTHING carries advertising, all the
time, always in your face, no matter what you're trying to do. But, what the
heck, the advertising means they don't have to pay tuition. Doesn't it?

This should be particularly amusing for students who've been conned into Free
PCs with their own surround of advertising. Take a 640x480 display. Use up
one-quarter of the screen for unremovable advertising. Now add the browser
overhead, and another frame for Campus Pipeline's "added value." What's left for
the resource? 320x240? It's the magical shrinking Web space, brought to you
by...

[Opinions expressed herein may not be those of my employers, but we're not
planning to run banner ads either.]