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ANNOUNCE: Ewgie 1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin 'Kev' Hughes)
Wed May 1 21:13:35 1996
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 18:03:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Kevin 'Kev' Hughes" <kevinh@eit.com>
To: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Announcing Ewgie 1.0
Ewgie (pronounced "yoo-GHEE", rhymes with "boogie") stands for
"Easy Web Group Interaction Enabler", but that's not important right now.
Ewgie is a very simple IRC-like chat and shared whiteboard system.
Here are some of the highlights:
* The server and client are totally written in Java and
are completely free
* The system sports a simple, clean interface
* It's very easy to set up and install
* The chat system supports most of the basic IRC commands
and has a few other things:
The ability to distribute URLs as browser "slide shows"
You can "ring" others with a sound
HTML-formatted transcripts
You can password-protect chat areas and
use access control by nickname and IP address
* The whiteboard has your usual basic whiteboard tools:
A selection tool, text tool, and live pointer tool
Choose pen widths and custom colors
Import, flip, rotate, cut, copy and paste images
Floating tool and status panels
* Unlike other applet chat systems, Ewgie does *not* use frames :)
To try it out or grab the distribution, just go to:
http://www.eit.com/ewgie/
Enjoy,
-- Kevin
--
Kevin Hughes * kevinh@eit.com
Enterprise Integration Technologies Webmaster (http://www.eit.com/)
Hypermedia Industrial Designer * Duty now for the future!
