viola 3.3
An extensible World Wide Web hypermedia browser
- Contributed by
- Ronald Joe Record (rr@sco.com)
- Obtained from
- ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/www/viola
- Author(s)
- Pei Y. Wei (wei@ora.com)
- Restrictions
- None Mentioned
Description
Based on and drawing from the Viola scripting language and toolkit,
ViolaWWW provides a way to build relatively complex hypermedia applications
that are beyond the provisions of the current HTML standard.
Background information: Viola is a toolkit for hypermedia development,
publishing, and browsing. It is basically a toolkit consisting of a
scripting language, a graphical user interface, and an object-oriented
data storage system. ViolaWWW is an application of the Viola toolkit.
For more information
http://berkeley.ora.com/proj/viola/violaHome.html
- Productivity
- A useful and extensible browser
- Safety
- Examined code + use it frequently
- Work Planned
- None
- Documentation
- On-line help and a
README
- Verification
-
/usr/skunk/bin/X11/viola
should bring up the SCO Skunkware 5 Welcome Home Page
Build Notes
The source is delivered in a gzip'd tar file
/skunkware/osr5/CD-ROM/src/X11/viola-3.3/viola-3.3.tar.gz. In order to extract and build
viola, cd to an empty writeable directory and issue the command :
gzcat /skunkware/osr5/CD-ROM/src/X11/viola-3.3/viola-3.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
You can then build by issuing the commands :
xmkmf -a
make
SkunkWare 5.0 1995