Purpose:
This application allows sharing of Web pages. HTML pages are converted
to a form that automatically synchronizes display in all browsers
connected to a TANGO session, i.e., all slave browser follow the links
selected in the master browser. Master status can be dynamically
re-assigned using "Become Master" and "Grant Master" buttons in the
TANGO control application. Slave browsers can follow links on their own,
but this action will not be shared. After a new link has
been selected in the master browser, all slaves will be automatically
re-synchronized.
After master status has been re-assigned, the new master
MUST click the Submit button in the upper
frame to re-initialize link sharing.
Examples of typical applications:
- Presentations over Internet:
TANGO shared browser will
automatically turn each Power Point HTML presentation into
an interactive presentation over Internet. Tell your audience to login
to a TANGO session, and start shared browser. From now on, they
see what you want them to see. You do not have to do anything at all
to your presentation! If a person in your audience wants to go back to
a slide and ask questions, he/she grabs shared browser control
and proceeds while other (including you) watch and listen. Combine
our shared browser with TANGO chat and TANGO audio/video conferencing,
and you have a virtual conference room at your service.
- Discuss web page design with your customer:
You design a site for a customer and want to get feedback on
your work, or teach the customer how to use the site. Use TANGO
shared browser to accomplish just that. No changes of any kind are needed
to turn your design into shared entity - our browser will do it for
you on the fly!
- Forms sharing: Your organization needs
to share certain forms and train employees in using them. The employees
are all over the globe. Use TANGO shared browser to share the forms and
to pass instruction to the employees how to handle them - all in real
time.
Limitations:
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Actions of Netscape navigation buttons such as Back/Forward are not
shared. Please, use the Back/Forward buttons in the upper panel
of the browser to navigate the history list.
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Sharing of very complex Web pages, explicitely using JavaScript and
Java applets, may, may partly, or may not work. Also, certain sites
use anti-robot measures that affect efficiency of our page-sharing
algorithm. While you will be able to share most of the Internet
web pages using this browser,
fullproof shared JavaScript applications can be implemented using
TANGO JavaScript API. Java applets can be shared using
TANGO Java API
Bugs:
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If you try to activate menu bar in the shared browser window, the
application will disconnect from TANGO. This is not really a TANGO bug,
but one of the undesirable "features" of the Netscape's JavaScript
implementation over which we have no control and no workaround .
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Browser issues a warning when it encounters a page it cannot share.
After this warning, link sharing is disabled. It can be re-enabled
by entering a shareable URL in the upper panel and pressing "Submit"
button.
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