ViolaWWW, Version 3.3 Beta April 10 1995 ========================== ViolaWWW is an extensible World Wide Web hypermedia browser. A new release is hereby announced. Based on and drawing from the Viola scripting language and toolkit, ViolaWWW provides a way to build relatively complex hypermedia applications that are beyond the provisions of the current HTML standard. Background information: Viola is a toolkit for hypermedia development, publishing, and browsing. It is basically a toolkit consisting of a scripting language, a graphical user interface, and an object-oriented data storage system. ViolaWWW is an application of the Viola toolkit. For more information>> http://berkeley.ora.com/proj/viola/violaHome.html Notable features in the new ViolaWWW ------------------------------------ * Fundamentally HTML 3.0 (ie: highly container based), plus many extensions for richer formatting capabilities. Extensions such as for multiple columns formatting, document insertion (client side), and dynamically collapsable/expandable list. * Sidebar panel: for displaying "meta" information, or for intra document navigational links, etc. The panel is engaged and disengaged by the presence of the document that is associated with the sidebar document. * Dynamic toolbar: document engaged tool applets (ie: navigational aids). * Rudimentary stylesheet mechanism for attaching styling information to a document. For changing document's fonts, color information, alignments. * A scripting language that is accessible from the HTML, such that an HTML document can embbed highly interactive scripts/applets. * Miscellaneous niceties: hotlist facility; shows HTTP loading progress in a pie chart (when it has the information). * An experimental platform. It's source available, even most of the browser is constructed in a highlevel scripting language; and is very customizable to someone who understands the scripting language. * Motif front-end. The X11 (non Motif) version is also available. * Self contained single binary for easy installation, unlike the old ViolaWWW which required setup of various viola application files. Availability ------------ Source and binary can be found in ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/www/viola. Platform: Unix/XWindows. Sparc binary is supplied. Pei Wei (wei@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. PS -- See README_SETUP_3.3 for notes on compilation, installation, and running ViolaWWW.