NOTE:
This project is no longer being maintained: it was developed for my masters thesis, which was completed in early 1997. I still, however, welcome any questions or comments that people may have.

Interactive HTML Example

Page Content and Environment

Embedded scripts have limited access to the environment the browser is running in, so they can extract information such as:

User Name:
User Machine:

The interface included in this document has retrieved information about the user's name and machine which this browser is running under, and inserted it into the parsed HTML tree before displaying the document.

A wide variety of other useful information is also available:

Browser Statistics:
- Name:
- Code:
- Version: .
- iHTML: ..
- Build:
Python Module:
- Version: ..
- Build:
Python Language:
- Version:
- Copyright:
- Platform:
- Max Int:
The available built-in modules are: .

The script may also make changes to its operation or how a document is presented which depend on the environment it is running in. For example, we may select a picture to display based on the local host the browser is executing on:

Further changes may be made to the document if other information is considered, such as:

View Dimensions: x
Color Display:
TrueColor Display:
Graphics Display:
Text Display:
Sockets:
Mosaic:

And finally, iHTML as a calculator:

( 71.0 + 24.0 ) / 9.0 =

You may also see the source.

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Dianne Kyra Hackborn <hackbod@angryredplanet.com>
Last modified: Sun Sep 29 20:40:38 PDT 1996

This web page and all material contained herein is Copyright (c) 1997 Dianne Hackborn, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.