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Extensions to the WWW

A short Index. It is by no means complete, meant rather for internal use. Also this page is new (Jan 17 96), therefore REALLY "under construction".

Mobile Code (in-line)

For Java and Javascript, see our pointers in our "Software at Tecfa" page.

Standards for inserting "active objects"

The problem is how to insert things like Java applets into HTML in a standard way. This is being worked on. See: [W3] Consortium Announces Active Object Agreement See also this older W3A An API for WWW Applets proposal

DataBase/Index Interfaces, Indexers,Light-weight DBs, etc.

WebLib: CGI scripts, etc. which let you put "one-stop-shopping" WWW front ends on top of multiple existing document databases (even ones on different hosts!). Ported only to Unix (so far). Distributed free of charge.
HTML Interface to MG: MG (Managing Gigabytes) is a book about indexing images and documents and comes with free software (FTPable)
GLIMPSE: Glimpse is a very powerful indexing and query system that allows you to search through all your files very quickly. It can be used by individuals for their personal file systems as well as by organizations for large data collections. Glimpse is the default search engine in Harvest. The Glimpse package contains several programs, the most important of which are glimpse, glimpseindex, agrep, and glimpseserver. To index all files in the a directory tree rooted at DIR, you simply say

Multimedia extensions

(Netscape Plug-ins and Helper Applications)

VRML Repository
Macromedia: Director - "Shockwave Technology"
Kaleida Media Player
Adobe PDF (Acrobat Reader)

Client Interfaces

Mosaic's CCI

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Extensions, sorted by theme

Collaboration

W3C Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability Page. WWW Collaboration Projects Page by Daniel LaLiberte CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Page), not particularly WWW-oriented, but interesting. GroupWare Central Quote: "Our goal is to provide information of interest to researchers, developers and users of groupware", site under construction (as of Jan 96).
Gesellschaftliche Aspekte computervermittelter Kommunikation Has many pointers to CMC Research.

Examples of WWW-based collaboration software: BSCW Shared Workspace System: Features Collaborative information sharing, Activity awareness, Platform integration, Member administration. Free software from GMD. TCBWorks, Webware for Teams. Supports a definition of projects insertable into a projects tree and discussion on each project. Hypernews Discussion Software inspired by Usenet News. See TECFA's own HyperNews main page.

D.K.S.