Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 12 May 1996

Foil 13 Illustration of WebWindows Concept for Presentation Software

From General Collection of Foils for CRPC Annual Meeting CRPC Annual Meeting -- 14-17 May 1996 Argonne. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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
Backend Oracle database illustrating modular WebWindows approach
Using Appropriate templates WebFoil Uses Hotjava or Netscape 1,2 or 3 to display HTML with full Web Power including applets to enable Multimedia and dynamic presentations

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