ANNOUNCE:NCompass Object Oriented WWW Browser for W95
Kerem Karatal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EXCITE CENTER, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Tuesday, Sept. 5 1995
The ExCITE Centre at Simon Fraser University announces its public
alpha
release of NCompass, the first truly object-oriented World Wide Web
browser
for Windows '95 and Windows NT! NCompass merges Microsoft's OLE
technology
with existing standard HTML documents and HTTP servers, and powerfully
extends the application potential of the World Wide Web.
The NCompass browser extends the World Wide Web by including support
for
OLE custom controls, small applications that can be embedded and
executed
within existing Web pages. With NCompass you can download these custom
controls over the Internet
without installing and configuring them manually in your system.
Distributed through standard HTTP servers, these applications are
installed
without any user intervention, (unlike existing 'helper' applications
which
are often difficult to install, or hard to find on the network). The
NCompass browser talks to existing HTTP servers and can parse HTML
documents including HTML 3.0. The Ncompass enriched document format is
fully compatible with existing HTTP servers including NT, OS/2, UNIX
and
Macintosh systems.
Dr. Gerri Sinclair of the ExCITE Center states, "NCompass has extended
the
reach of the applications programmer to the entire network. With
NCompass
virtually any Win95 program you write can be added to your web page."
Furthermore, the controls are portable and reusable. For example,
when the
browser loads a page which displays an in-line AVI movie, it will note
that
the AVI player control exists, and play back the data file using the
installed control. If it encounters a control that has not been
installed,
you will be notified that a new control will be added to the system,
and
you can choose whether to accept the new software.
The power of NCompass lies in its implementation of Microsoft's OLE
technology. This means that developers can extend the browser through
OLE
custom controls to include a full suite of diverse applications from
financial market "smart agent" applets to rich multimedia and 3-D game
playing interfaces. OLE Controls can be created currently to run on
any
Windows '95 or Windows NT system, and will also work with other
OLE-aware
applications. "The possibilities are endless." says program team
leader,
Kerem Karatal, "What we are seeing is the next generation of
network-based
application computing."
For more information on NCompass, and examples of what can be done,
check out:
http://www.excite.sfu.ca/NCompass/
For more information about ExCITE:
e-mail: exc...@sfu.ca
URL: http://www.excite.sfu.ca/
FAX: 604-291-5679
phone: 604-291-3615
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Jaap O. Tuinman
Media Liaison
NCompass, ExCITE
<tui...@sfu.ca>
Colin Adams
kerem_...@sfu.ca (Kerem Karatal) wrote:
> OBJECT-ORIENTED BROWSER NCOMPASSES THE WORLD WIDE WEB
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EXCITE CENTER, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
>
I hope this doesn't add the possibility of Web viruses. Click on a page and
trash your hard disk :-(
Colin Adams ada...@citec.qld.gov.au
Department of Lands Townsville QLD. Australia
Sven Hansen
: OBJECT-ORIENTED BROWSER NCOMPASSES THE WORLD WIDE WEB
: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EXCITE CENTER, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
: Tuesday, Sept. 5 1995
: http://www.excite.sfu.ca/NCompass/
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Bye, (_
,_}ven.