HTML web page editor/viewer

Introduction
This major new feature allows you to create, modify and view multilingual web pages which use any combination of the Japanese, English, extended European, Cyrillic (Russian) and Greek character sets. Pictures and sounds can also be embedded in these web pages, allowing you to create a range of interactive course materials including exercises, dialogs, grammar templates, etc. If you are a teacher, you now have an authoring system for your materials which you can use without restriction to prepare study courses.

Another benefit of the new integrated browser in JWM is that you can browse a web page (or any text document) whilst you have another document open in the wordprocessor. This allows you to have a English text file open whilst you translate it into Japanese, for example. Of course, in the JWM browser you can also Command-click any character to get detailed character information.

Limitations
Many HTML tags are implemented in this version of JWM, but there are restrictions on some layout tags and on media formats. For example, tables are not yet supported, nor are different font sizes (though you can change the default font in Preferences) or headings (you could use bold for headings). In the area of media, only .pct (PICT) picture files are supported, rather than the usual .gif (GIF) and .jpg (JPEG). These additional formats are expected to be supported in future releases of JWM.

All popular picture editing packages for both the PC and MacOS support PICT format. This includes shareware packages available freely on the Internet such as PaintShop Pro for the PC and GraphicConverter for MacOS.

Sound files in the very popular .aif (AIFF) and .afc (AIFC) formats are supported, though they are currently restricted to uncompressed 8-bit mono. All sound editors on the MacOS platform support these formats, and the very popular shareware package called GoldWave (on the PC) supports both formats.

The browser in JWM is currently an offline browser only. ie. it won't load up pages directly from the Internet. If you want to do this, you will need to use a normal web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer to go to the web site, then save the source code of the web page to your hard disk, and then open it with JWM for viewing and translation.

If you want to use these materials as a basis for developing course materials for your students (subject to the usual copyright rules, of course), you will also need to save each picture you want included and convert it into PICT format using a graphics package. You may also need to modify the HTML source code somewhat to ensure that the page displays properly in the JWM browser (eg. change the picture names to .pct, etc).

All hyperlinks must be to valid HTML documents (or text files) - you can't link to a picture directly, as it won't load correctly. To display a picture via a link, simply create a small HTML document which links directly to the picture, as in this example.

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