Communicating with Hypertext

World Wide Web Resources

Beginners should probably consult the pages on browsing the web, making web pages at the Center, and including math in web pages.

• Web Browsers -- The Geometry Center maintains a variety of browsers including Netscape, Xmosaic, HotJava, Omniweb (for NeXT), and Lynx (text only).

• Web Tools -- There are a wide variety of tools and techniques for producing web documents including mathematics and graphics.

• CGI scripts -- An introduction to writing gateway scripts for web pages at the Geometry Center.

• Interactive web applications -- Using the W3 toolkit developed at the Geometry Center, it is possible to create interactive web applications.

Non-Web Hypertext Resources

• Showcase -- This is SGI's hypermedia development environment. One can put text, images, 3D models, sound, and animations together with links. A very slick system, but it only runs on SGI machines. Consult InSight online documentation (from weyl) and the showcase help menus.

• MedisView -- MedisView.app is a NeXT multimedia publication environment. The Online documentation is sketchy, but there are references to articles documenting the system. It looks quite powerful, but may require some programming to take full advantage.

• Mathematica and Maple notebooks -- The notebook front ends to Mathematica and Maple provide only limited hypertext functionality. However, for certain kinds of exposition, notebooks are the best option. Consult the documentation in the Center library.

• Window Help files --Although the Center provides limited support for Windows help file creation, the wide availability of Windows computers makes this a hypertext resource which should not be overlooked. There are many public domain help file editors.

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Created: Fri Sep 8 11:39:00 1995 --- Last modified: Jun 18 1996