PWB

[Karen G. Schneider]

What I like about the PWB is that it makes the Internet more accessible for
our patrons by taking an increasingly complex tool and giving us the
flexibility to strip it down to size.  The site restrictions are not a biggy
for us because we do this anyway with a proxy server.

Some of the features in PWB are available in NT 4.0 system policy, but
between the two, the .ini appears at least as simple, particularly if it's
installed on a share directory. (I'll find out tomorrow if a client will gag
at a combo of system policy and ini settings.) The one twist there would be
if the executable changed frequently, but I read today that IE 6 is
imminent... sigh... so it's not as if browsers never change.  Also, PWB has
some features not found in system policy files, which haven't been updated
since 5.0, as far as I can tell.

So all in all... it's not what we take away... it's what we can provide.

Karen G. Schneider kgs at bluehighways.com
Assistant Director for Technology
Shenendehowa Public Library, NY
www.shenpublib.org