HoTMetaL, XMetaL, ScrapMetaL?..."Windows 98 to Get Web Authoring Features"
SEYBOLD, SAN FRANCISCO--"...In the fourth quarter PC makers will begin shipping Windows 98 systems that support Chromeffects, a technology that supports complex features in Web pages, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer said at the Seybold conference here on Tuesday.
Chromeffects uses both HTML and the emerging standard XML to allow developers to build Web pages that include two- and three-dimensional graphics, streaming audio, and streaming video, Ballmer said. Users will need a 300-MHz system with a 4MB graphics card; such systems should be available for less than $1000 by the fourth quarter, he said.
Using simple XML and scripting, Microsoft multimedia components, and third-party development tools, Chromeffects will allow publishers to jazz up online shopping catalogs, advertisements, and other electronic commerce media, Ballmer told the Seybold crowd..."
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