HELP! * GREEN=global GREY=local Global HTML version of Foils prepared 10 November 1995

Foil 17 Illustration of WebWindows Concept for Presentation Software

From Business Opportunities and Advanced Web Technologies Case Center Meeting -- 13 November 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Persuasion and Powerpoint are rather similar monolithic packages which can for instance only be clumsily ported to UNIX as cannot access internal data-structures defining foils
WebFoil (NPAC prototype WebWindows presentation package) has
Extended open HTML source manipulated by powerful PERL5 scripts allowing global changes and linkages of foils from many sources
  • This plays role of outline which is a somewhat crippled open version of Persuasion/Powerpoint foils defining text alone
WebFoil Uses Hotjava to display HTML with full Web Power including applets to enable Multimedia and dynamic presentations


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