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Windows 98 to get Web authoring features
September 5, 1998Web posted at: 12:29 p.m. EDT (1629 GMT)
by James Niccolai
SAN
FRANCISCO (IDG) -- 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.
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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.
In a demonstration of Chromeffects, a Microsoft engineer showed how the technology can be used to play a video clip on the surface of a 3-D object within a Web page.
The technology will be available only for Windows 98, and Ballmer fielded tough questions from the audience about whether Chromeffects will tie developers and users to Microsoft's latest desktop operating system. "It's integrated with Windows--that's probably a controversial thing to say. It operates with the PC browser, it's an integrated feature," he said.
Microsoft may offer Chromeffects for the Macintosh as an add-in to Internet Explorer 4.0 for the Mac, Ballmer said, but he did not offer any details or a time frame for that product.