- IPer
iPer (also known as IPER tool) is an educational
computer program designed to managehypertext andhypermedia .The software was invented in 1996 at
Politecnico di Torino and abstracts about its original interface design were published for the first time within the papers of theED-Media '97 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications in Calgary ( [http://www.hypertext-authoring.com/pdfs/iper-edmedia97.pdf The EDMedia 97 Paper about Iper] ).iPer was probably the first
software with avisual approach tohyperlink s, introducing theWYSIWYL interface.In 1996, the common way to place a Web link was to write:
The WYSIWYL in Wikipedia In 1996, with iPer, probably for the first time for a
Web software Fact|date=February 2007 the author was able to choose the destination page with a click on a visual preview (a sort of Web browser), without having to type the actual file name or the URL (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYL ), and without having to beonline (connected to the Internet) while performing the various edit on his/herhypertext document.The first version of iPer required a server extension software (IPERserver), that was available for Unix based and Windows based
web server platforms.iPer was then improved; an internal FTP publishing feature was added and so the software became capable of direct Internet publishing.It was then released as shareware and it was featured on several paper magazines and online magazines, in Italy ( [http://www.tecnichenuove.com Internet News; October 1999; ISSN 1123-6027] , [http://www.pcworld.it PC World January 2000; ISBN 9771120806001-00001] ,...), USA ( [http://www.informationweek.com/783/whatshot.htm Information Week; April 2000] , [http://www.dpdirectory.com/asp22.htm PC AI Magazine] ,...) and the rest of the world.iPer is the ancestor of the commercial software products
Hyper Publish andPaperKiller .ee also
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WYSIWYL
*Hyper Publish
*Politecnico di Torino
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