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

Foil 29 Illustration of WebWindows Concept for Presentation Software

From NII Technologies from WebTop Productivity to Computing Minnesota Presentations at Cray Research and University -- 13-14 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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