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Interactive HTML Documents

Dr. Cherri Pancake, Oregon State University, pancake@cs.orst.edu
Dianne Hackborn, Oregon State University, hackbod@mail.cs.orst.edu

Material to be presented at Supercomputing '95.

The "interactive" HTML document is an extension to the current World Wide Web HTML specification, which allows control information to be included with a basic document. This provides documents with the ability to off-load computation from their servers, incorporate more user interaction, adjust themselves to the environment they are being used in, and supply additional browser capabilities without the need for changes in the browser itself.

Contents

1. Overview
   • What is Wrong?
   • Interactive HTML's Solution
2. Key Issues
   • Portability
   • Integration
   • Standardization
3. High-level Design
   • HTML Extensions
   • URL Extensions
4. Implementation Architecture
   • Goals
   • iHTML Library Design
   • Generic Interface Module
   • Browser-specific Module
   • Language-specific Module
5. Browser Implementations
   • NCSA's Mosaic Browser
   • WWW Consortium's Arena Browser
6. Appendix A: HTML DTD Extensions
   • <LINK>
   • <FIG> and <PARAM>

Examples

(These require an Interactive HTML capable browser.)

ASKBLiG

A "Breakout"-like game.

Bouncy

The psychedelic bouncing ball.

AniBars

An animated bar-graph.

Environment and Remote Interaction

Extracts information about the browser and local host a script is running on to control how a document is displayed. Also contains an example of opening an interactive connection with a remote host.

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