ViolaWWW

ViolaWWW was one of the first known web browser for access to the World Wide Web, and developed system in the early 1990s for Unix and X Window. ViolaWWW was during this time of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN ) favors.

Formation

Viola was originally the invention of Pei -Yuan Wei, a student at the Experimental Computing Facility at the University of California, Berkeley. His interest in graphically based software began with HyperCard, one of the first commercially available broad-based hypertext systems, with whom he came into contact for the first time in 1989. With the help of only one X terminal access and a HyperCard manual Pei- Yuan Wei created the first version of Viola, when he used the existing concepts and implemented in X Windows.

Viola 0.8

In 1991, Viola 0.8 has been released. A short time later, Viola 0.8 by O'Reilly Books, a technical publisher, used and configured to display the Global Network Navigator site and publish it. In 1992, after a short development, Viola was the first browser to advanced features such as scriptable objects, stylesheets, and tables included or enabled.

Special

Viola had a Toolkit, a tool for the development and support of Visual Interactive media applications, which was based on a multimedia web browser application. Viola ran under the X Window System and could be used in order to provide complex hypermedia applications that were built using HTML 3.0 (which at the time newest version of HTML ) with features such as applets and other interactive content.

His forward- time

Viola was ahead of his time because he already received the following functions:

  • Client-side inclusion of documents, forerunner of the frames, or syndication via JavaScript, which is still used frequently
  • A simple style sheet mechanism for inserting information such as fonts, colors and orientations in a document. Before Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS) was developed in 1998, Viola began these sectors are already very good at
  • A sidebar panel for the display of meta-information, navigation links, and other information, similar to the features in today's modern browsers
  • A scripting language that allowed embed interactive scripts and applets in an HTML document. This scripting language can be seen as a precursor to today's JavaScript.
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