WebXpresso Documentation


Any WebXpresso drawing can be embedded in a Web page and viewed in Netscape Navigator with the WebXpresso Plug-In.

The plug-in also provides these additional capabilities:

Interaction. Drawings inside the plug-in can be interacted with by the user. Such interaction is actually built into the drawings itself during construction, but is supported by the plug-in.

Animation. All graphical object have attributes called resources that can be modified - both statically within the editor, and dynamically within the plug-in. Resource values and update requests can be fed into the plug-in from an associated data plug-in or from the web server.

Navigation. Graphical objects in the drawing can be named. This is what allows their attributes to be modified by a data stream. If an objects name begins with http:, then the object is cosidered to be a link to the given URL.

DataViews WebXpresso MIME Type

A MIME type identifies a type of document and allows Internet-based programs to determine how to display the transmitted document. The World Wide Web is built on this document model. The plug-in extension to the web used MIME types to identify which plug-in library will be responsible for displaying a document.

The WebXpresso MIME type is text/x-xpg