Re: FYI... press release
Pei Y. Wei (wei@xcf.Berkeley.EDU)
Wed, 31 Aug 94 18:52:08 -0700
mddoyle@netcom.com (Michael D. Doyle):
>The technology described below may present an alternative strategy for
>delivering certain types of VR applications through the Web.
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>PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE
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>| | EMBEDDED PROGRAM OBJECTS IN DISTRIBUTED HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS
>| |
>| | Researchers at the U. of California have created software for embedding
>| | interactive program objects within hypermedia documents. Previously,
>| | object linking and embedding (OLE) has been employed on single machines or
>| | local area networks using MS Windows -TM-. This UC software is the
>| | first instance where program objects have been embedded in documents
>| | over an open and distributed hypermedia environment such as the
>| | World Wide Web on the Internet.
This is very interesting... But, I don't think this is the first case
of program objects embedded in docs and transported over the WWW.
ViolaWWW has had this capabilities for months and months now.
Been meaning to propose something for VRML ever since the Geneva W3 conf...
But anyway, any body interested in learning more about how violaWWW does
this embedded objects thing can get a paper on it from
ftp://ora.com/pub/www/viola/violaIntro.ps.gz
-Pei Pei Y. Wei (pei@ora.com)
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.