SurfIt! - A WWW Browser
Steve Ball
PASTIME Project
Australian National University
Abstract
World Wide Web (WWW) browsers have, until recently, only offered static
features and media types. A new generation of WWW browers now becoming
available are offering technologies to remove these limitations and allow
dynamic extensions to the browser application as well as dynamic media
types or active message content.
SurtIf! is an example fo these "next generation" WWW browers. It offers
safe execution of downloaded Tcl/Tk applets to support active message
content, as well as hypertools to dynamically extend the browser at
run-time.
The latest version of SurfIt! is written entirely as Tcl script code,
making it highly portable, user-costomisable, and extensible.
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