About Fat Pages

Dave's original 'how-to' about Fat Pages

http://www.scripting.com/fatPages/

When you see the Fat Page logo, like the one to the left of this text, it means that the page contains a small embedded object that can be stored in Frontier's database.

The embedded object could be a script, a text document, an outline or a menu of new commands. In the future, we hope to be able to distribute objects that are part of other databases and language environments, for example, FileMaker and Java.

To view an embedded object, be sure Frontier is running, choose the Get Page Data command from your web browser's Scripts menu.

Required software

To access objects embedded in fat pages, you must be running the following software:

• A compatible web browser. We recommend Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0.1b1 or greater because it has the smoothest Fat Pages connection. As of 4/9/97, our Fat Pages implementation also works with Netscape Navigator.

• Frontier 4.2.3 or greater. Frontier must be running in order for the Scripts menu to be present in your web browser.

• This feature is only available on the Macintosh OS.

Pointers

Downloading: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Frontier.

Check out the DaveNet piece Fat Web Pages, 3/26/97, for background on how the Fat Web Pages feature came into being, and where we want to go with it.

If you have Frontier objects that you want to distribute, see "Developing Fat Pages" for an explanation of how fat pages fit into the Frontier website framework.

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