| Current web browsers are often used for electronic presentation but their page formating capabilities are inferior compared with presentation packages such as Persuasion or PowerPoint. |
| In turn, these presentation packages are previous generation software, without any scripted extensions and Web compatibility. |
| WebFoil brings these two currently disparate worlds together, by offering a web browser which is at the same time capable of formatting and customizing foils, viewed as Web pages. |
| Note "foil" is a good unit for electronic presentation as (can be) designed to fit a computer screen and (can) have large fonts |