Encyclopaedia Britannica Standardize on WebRenderer.HOBART, Australia -- JadeLiquid Software(TM), the leading Java browser component provider, today announced that Encyclopaedia Britannica will utilize its WebRenderer(TM) Java browser component within their desktop applications. A key component of each of Encyclopaedia Britannica's desktop products is the built-in browser feature enabled by JadeLiquid's WebRenderer. These products allow Britannica's customers to access hundreds of thousands of articles, multi-media and many interactive tools on both Windows and Mac OSX See Mac OS X. desktops. An online update center allows users to view online the most recently updated articles by Britannica editors, all without having to leave the Encyclopaedia Britannica application. "We chose WebRenderer because it allows us to embed the Mozilla browser in our products, and, being Java Swing compatible, it provides both standards compliance and a platform for a compelling user interface," said Luna Rajbhandari, Director, CD/DVD Technology, with Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Also we have found WebRenderer to be a high performance and stable component. Now all Britannica desktop products use WebRenderer for content display." "We are thrilled to have Encyclopaedia Britannica standardizing on WebRenderer. With the sheer volume of content displayed in Britannica's applications there is a real necessity for standards compliant web content display. WebRenderer does this to a very high standard," said Anthony Scotney, 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. of JadeLiquid Software. The WebRenderer Java browser component tightly integrates into any Java Desktop or Server application and provides standards compliant rendering of web content across multiple platforms. WebRenderer being the most standards compliant Java browser SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). supporting 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. 4.01, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. , JavaScript, CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. 1 & 2, XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) A standard from the W3C for describing a style sheet for XML documents. It is the XML counterpart to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in HTML and is compatible with CSS2. , XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , DOM, AJAX etc. JadeLiquid continues to offer the most accurate, standards compliant and robust Java browser SDK technology commercially available. About JadeLiquid Software Pty Ltd JadeLiquid Software Pty Ltd is a leading provider of Java Web content rendering components for deployment within enterprise applications and web services. WebRenderer provides the ability to connect the client application to the server business logic without changing server code or infrastructure. WebRenderer is the leading standards compliant Java web content rendering component. JadeLiquid has an installed base spanning the globe with deployments in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on WebRenderer visit www.webrenderer.com. About Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. has been a leader in reference and education publishing since 1768. The company is known for the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica and its pioneering work in electronic publishing. Its products include Britannica Online School Edition and other digital products; and printed products such as the new Britannica Discovery Library. Long recognized for its superior authority, Britannica's editorial operation is overseen by some of the world's most distinguished scholars, several of them Nobel laureates. Britannica makes its headquarters in Chicago. |
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