A multimedia authoring tool for the Internet

The World Wide Web has gone through many improvements since its birth. The Common Gateway Interface (CGI), client and server-side scripting, form processing, integration of Web components, better security are some of the most notable enhancements which bring higher levels of interactivity and 'intelligence' to the Web, making it more able to meet both educational and business needs. This paper concentrates on the use of Web components in practice. More specifically, to show how a component framework paradigm can be a cost-effective and time-saving solution for developers and users alike, a prototype Internet multimedia authoring tool based on a particular component framework is introduced. In a more general sense, this paper hopes to bring into perspective the viability of the current use of component frameworks on the Internet and how they can also leverage Web application development efforts which need not be restricted only to electronic books.