about:plugins

• about:plugins
• Firefox plugin check

about:support

• about:support

Sample Media Types

Standard Images

Less well supported image types

• 
• link to this single test image
• https://openheicfile.com/
• https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/
• http://www.w3.org/TR/compositing-1/#canvascompositingandblending
• 
• link to this single test image
• JPEG XR ConformanceSuite
• http://www.w3.org/TR/compositing-1/#canvascompositingandblending

JAVA

• Java.com installation test
• javatester.org test
  • locally compiled copy
• CUFS java test
• Oracle Java overview

Flash

• About Adobe Flash
  • a little bit of the above
  • and a local copy of the bit
• Kleinwalsertal-Oberstdorf
• Val d'Isere / Tignes - Espace Killy
• Coppercube Backyard demo
• Coppercube Ocean demo
• Shockwave + Flash

DVI

• GRM2004-ex1.dvi

PostScript

• GRM2004-ex1.ps

Compressed PostScript

• GRM2004-ex1.ps.gz

PDF

• GRM2004-ex1.pdf
• GRM2004-ex1.pdf as file URL
• Microsoft core fonts, as used in eg this HMRC Document can be found in the msttcorefonts rpm.
• research report containing (simplified) Chinese text (restricted access). Exercises one of the Adobe Font Packs.
• Burt's problem pdf from the Journal of Differential Geometry
• Adobe 8 problem with Ivan's notes
• /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/examples/annots.pdf is a sample PDF containing JavaScript.

PDF Portfolios

• Adobe's description pf PDF Portfolios
• portfolio sample from Adobe

Mathematical (TeX) symbols as standard characters

• Magma 2.19 release notes

MathML

• HTML5 with MathML Browser Test (Presentation Markup) and older version.
• W3 MathML test suite
• MathML @ mozilla
  • MathML Torture test

• MathML XML

  • GRM2004-ex1.mz.xml
  • GRM2004-ex1.ttm.xml

• MathML html

  • GRM2004-ex1.ht.html
  • GRM2004-ex1.mz.html
  • GRM2004-ex1.ttm.html

• MathML from Design Science

  • Design Science Math-Player latest version check Internet Explorer only.
  • Equivalent Plane Strain Solution
  • Internet Explorer 9 used to break MathML ... but with HTML5 support they have fixed it.

• Optional MathJax fonts

  • Check whether optional MathJax fonts are installed
  • Get the optional MathJax fonts

• MathML and MathJax in real use

  • MathJax TeX samples
  • MathJax MathML samples
  • Biomedical Optics Express help viewing equations
  • Math Sci Net (restricted access)

jsMath

• jsMath home
• NRich jsMath page that some of our browsers can not handle - some crash, others show limsup_{n®¥} (which may not be our problem)

CDF - Computable Document Format

• Wolfram plugin test document
• Wolfram Data Applications example document

• CDF at Wolfram
• CDF at Wikipedia

MHT/MHTML - MIME HTML

• MHTML at Wikipedia

In Firefox with the UnMHT plugin URLs without a .mht extension may not open immediately, so select "Tools / UnMHT / Extract".

• A ski club advert
• The same ski club advert without the filename extension

EPUB

• Draft Exim spec
• Draft Exim filter spec
• Calibre EPUB demo. This explores the potential of EPUB; most of the advanced formatting is not going to work on readers less capable than calibre's built-in EPUB viewer. (Calibre User Manual)
• Linux Journal September 2011

SVG

• SVG.org home page
• A usable SVG application
• Tetris or a local copy here
• SVG test from Adobe
• SVG document from above, since it is broken
• SVG examples from Adobe
• Resources for Mozilla's native Scalable Vector Graphics implementation
• Scientific Linux logo
• Clock from Inkscape book website

Lots of character sets

• DPMMS users

MP3

• Owen Dunn's lugubrious is a sample mp3

Real Media

• Christopher D. HACON (University of Utah) at Global COE Opening Symposium at Tokyo
• Radio 4
• Radio 4
• Radio 4 iPlayer
• Railroad, telegraph and internet
• Test for current Helix player - says that v10 is up to date, so don't trust it.

Windows Media

• Christopher D. HACON (University of Utah) at Global COE Opening Symposium at Tokyo mms://realsv.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/conference/2009gcoeopsym/090131_03hacon.wmv
• Radio 4

Ptolemy at the Digital Assets Repository of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

SilverLight

• Microsoft Silverlight install page
• Moonlight for Linux

DejaVu

• lizardtech home
• DjVu Zone
• Pride and Prejudice
• AJS's EGA index
• AJS's SGA index
• NISB's SGA documents

WRL (VRML?) and X3D.

• Cuboctahedron
• NIST logo VRML
• NIST logo X3D

WebGL

• get.webgl.org
• Zygote body (was Google Body)
• Coppercube Ocean demo
• Coppercube Backyard demo
• Getting a WebGL Implementation
• Mozilla: Blocked_Graphics_Drivers

Videos

AVI videos

• Jon Peatfield et al role playing

HTML5 video

• YouTube HTML5 test page.
• Quirksmode html5 video tests
• camendesign video_for_everybody
• Jim McElwain's test page

MRSI Quicktime .mov files

• MRSI Quicktime for Linux instructions
• You will need something like rtsp-stream-over-tcp=yes in ~/.mplayer/config
• Content page for Burt's MRSI talk
  • Burt's MRSI talk streamed
  • Burt's MRSI for downloading - Linux can stream this !
  • mplayer -rtsp-stream-over-tcp rtsp://198.129.64.243/13665/13665-13665-Quicktime.mov
  • mplayer -rtsp-stream-over-tcp http://198.129.64.244/13665/13665-13665-Quicktime.mov

University of Tokyo, Real Player and Windows Media

• Christopher D. HACON (University of Utah) at Global COE Opening Symposium at Tokyo RealMedia Windows Media .asx link mms://....wmv

GRASP UTexas, Quicktime

• Paul Hacking

YouTube (flash)

• Nellie the Elephant - Toy Dolls

MPEG-4

• Tony Finch's Mandelbrot video

H-264

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-android-openh264
• Press Test! on https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/pc_test_no_h264.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548679#c21
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/WebRTC_codecs#Supported_video_codecs

NHS Video Calling

• https://nhs.attendanywhere.com/ tests whether your browser supports NHS AttendAnywhere video calling

Do Not Track

• Do Not Track http://donottrack.us/ tests whether your browser supports DNT and whether it is enabled

Managing Adverts

• https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices Allows you to turn on or off customized advertising by a large number of advertising companies.

HTML5

• How well does your browser support HTML5?/

Colo(u)r Profiles

• http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

For Firefox 3 enable ICCv4 profiles with about:config gfx.color_management.enabled=true

Mixed HTTP and HTTPS content

• Mozilla Mixed Content Blocking Test 62178
• Mozilla Security Blog: Mixed Content Blocking in Firefox Aurora

Which SSL/TLS ciphers and protocols is my browser using ?

• SSL Labs browser tester https://ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html
• Qualys browser security check https://browsercheck.qualys.com/ - may request a plugin or similar.
  • The javascript version does not require a plugin.
• hardenize.com https://hardenize.com checks multiple ssl services
• Does middleware break TLS v1.3 https://tls13.mitm.watch/ (needs flash and javascript) ?
• securityheaders.io https://securityheaders.io checks the security headers of websites
• Does you browser use RC4 encryption ?https://rc4.serverhello.com/
• https://ssl-tools.net/mailservers test ssl/tls on email servers too
• Mike's Toolbox Enhanced Multi-Threaded SSL/TLS Test Server
  • https://www.mikestoolbox.net/
  • https://www.mikestoolbox.org/
  These sites uses a private CA so the certificate is untrusted by most browsers.
• Google TLS minimum requirement https://security.googleblog.com/2015/09/disabling-sslv3-and-rc4.html and test page https://cert-test.sandbox.google.com/

Last modified: Wed Apr 15 13:33:19 2020