From: yuri@sq.sq.com (Yuri Rubinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: First Freeware SGML Viewer for the World Wide Web
Date: Wed, 17 May 95 16:09:11 GMT
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Message-ID: <1995May17.160911.26917@sq.sq.com>


The US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), creators
of the Mosaic World Wide Web browser, Synex Information AB of Stockholm,
Sweden, and SoftQuad Inc, of Toronto Canada are pleased to announced the
availability of SoftQuad Panorama, a freeware viewer for full SGML on
the Web. In addition, Panorama employs some of the linking capabilities
made possible through HyTime, and is the first end-user HyTime application
in the world (to the best of our knowledge). It also supports TEI pointers
for linking, CALS tables, and use of an SGML DTD for stylesheets. (SoftQuad
and Synex have already committed to supporting DSSSL Light when it becomes
available.)

The current version runs only on Microsoft Windows; others will
follow soon.

The software, including online manual, a set of DTDs, stylesheets and
table-of-contents-generators called navigators, may be reached through
   http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/panorama/panorama.html

OCLC, the Online Center for Library Computing, host of a new suite of
SGML Web resources and demos curated by SoftQuad, is the first site licensee
of the commercial version of the software, called SoftQuad Panorama PRO.


The NCSA has agreed to host an "SGML on the Web" page, which will contain
pointers to a variety of SGML resources, but, in particular will act as
the SGML equivalent of the NCSA/GNN What's New Page, the announcement board
for interesting new Web sites. That address is:
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/WebSGML.sgml

A .html file at the same site makes that information available to people
without an SGML viewer too.

If you have SGML content to put up on the Web, please fill out the form
attached to the WebSGML page.

For further information, please contact panorama@sq.com 

In some senses, SGML on the Web is an experiment in which we all get to
take part. Synex and SoftQuad have provided the first generation of
technology for the experiment; NCSA has provided technical support and
critical encouragement through a Memorandum of Understanding for
co-operative development with SoftQuad.

Of course we'll remain heavily involved, but now it's up to all of you to
try the new capabilities out; put up interesting content; push the edges
of what full-blown SGML and the Web can do together.



Yuri 

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