HELP! * YELLOW=global GREY=local Global HTML version of Foils prepared February 11,1996

Foil 69 Illustration of WebWindows Concept for Presentation Software

From IBM Tutorial on Web Technology for HPCC IBM Poughkeepsie -- February 7 1996. by Geoffrey 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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