EBT develops free Hot Java "DynaWeb applet" for browsing SGML Electronic Books with Sun Microsystems' Hot Java web browser; Internet pioneers, EBT and Sun Microsystems, collaborate to bring large, SGML document support to the Web.PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 1995--Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (EBT EBT See: Earnings Before Taxes ), the world's leading provider of standards-based online publishing solutions, today announced that it is developing a "DynaWeb applet" for use with Sun Microsystems' Hot Java World-Wide Web (Web) browser. EBT's Hot Java DynaWeb applet will enable users of Sun's Web browser to view, search, and navigate millions of pages of SGML-based (Standard Generalized Markup Language (language, text) Standard Generalized Markup Language - (SGML) A generic markup language for representing documents. SGML is an International Standard that describes the relationship between a document's content and its structure. ) information currently in DynaText electronic books. An alpha version of Sun's Hot Java and a prototype of EBT's DynaWeb applet, both to be made freely available from EBT's FTP site (ftp FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to .ebt.com), were demonstrated last week at SUNWORLD `95 in San Francisco. EBT's Hot Java DynaWeb applet will take full advantage of DynaText and SGML SGML in full Standard Generalized Markup Language Markup language for organizing and tagging elements of a document, including headings, paragraphs, tables, and graphics. . The DynaWeb applet brings enhanced searching, navigation, support for SGML and various HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. (HyperText Markup Language (hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard) Hypertext Markup Language - (HTML) A hypertext document format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is built on top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or more parameters and a ">". ) file formats, tables, and equations to Web publishing. "Our DynaWeb applet significantly broadens the range of content that can be browsed in Hot Java," said EBT President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Louis R. Reynolds. "We are pleased to be working with Sun to bring SGML to the Web." To facilitate access to Hot Java and the DynaWeb applet, EBT's FTP site (ftp.ebt.com) will act as a Hot Java "mirror site" for downloading the complete Hot Java application and the DynaWeb applet from one site. All Web browsers can connect to EBT's DynaWeb site directly (http://www.ebt.com/) or via a link from Sun's Web site (http://www.sun.com/) for more information as Hot Java becomes available. Current DynaWeb sites (e.g. Novell, Inc., http://www.novell.com/, select the Manuals button) have millions of pages of source SGML documents currently converted to HTML on-the-fly by DynaWeb as the documents are accessed by Web browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape. DynaWeb empowers Web browsers with enhanced functionality, not currently supported by HTML, including: access to the powerful SGML-based DynaText search engine for fulltext, proximity, wild card, Boolean and other advanced search techniques; as well as enhanced navigation of HTML documents through an interactive table of contents automatically generated from existing SGML structures already in place in publishers' DynaText electronic books. EBT's DynaText SGML technology is currently in use at SunSoft for development and delivery of next-generation SunSoft AnswerBook files as part of a future version of the Solaris operating environment. Using tools available from EBT today, Solaris users, software vendors, and OEMs can create and publish complete on-line documentation immediately for CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , World-Wide Web, and print from a single source. DynaText is the world's leading SGML-based electronic publishing system. DynaText accepts any valid SGML document and automatically builds a dynamic electronic book that can include hyperlinks, tables, equations, graphics, animation, audio and video. Full-text searches can be conducted for individual and collections or "libraries" of DynaText books. DynaText electronic books can be shared on heterogeneous client/server networks or placed on standalone workstations. DynaText runs on SunSoft's Solaris operating environment and all other major UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms, as well as Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. DynaWeb server software enables DynaText electronic book publishers to take full advantage of the Internet distribution channel for disseminating large collections of information electronically. DynaWeb connects DynaText electronic books to the Internet, adds powerful search and navigation functionality to the multitude of Web client browsers, and does so in a manner that is efficient and sustainable. EBT provides corporate and commercial publishers with the industry's most comprehensive standards-based on-line publishing solution. EBT's product suite, engineered from the ground up around SGML, enables publishers to deliver information to the Web, CD-ROM, LAN, and print from a single source. EBT, a founding member of SGML Open and the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ), is privately held and headquartered in Providence, R.I. -0- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is an international ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. standard for document markup. SGML has been adopted by industries with large amounts of in-house publishing including aircraft, airlines, automotive, computer, defense, electronics, pharmaceuticals, securities, telecommunications and transportation, as well as government systems integrators, publishing companies, and academic research centers. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is an application of SGML used for marking up and rendering documents within the World-Wide Web environment on the Internet. -0- Note to Editors: DynaText, DynaWeb, and EBT are trademarks of Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. Hot Java, Sun, Sun Microsystems, SunSoft, AnswerBook, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. Netscape is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corp. Mosaic is a trademark of the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
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