Web page authoring tool for structured documents
First Claim
1. A method for composing a web page, comprising:
- displaying a first browser window to a user, the first browser window including one or more user-specified instances of structured fields;
allowing the user to compose a web page in the first browser window by entering content into the user-specified instances of structured fields; and
displaying the composed web page in a second browser window in a manner consistent with the user-entered content in the first browser window.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A web page is composed using a browser that displays an authoring web page containing an authoring tool embedded in the authoring web page. The authoring web page, as displayed in a browser window, includes a web page editing region that displays a web page under construction. The web page editing region further includes one or more user-specified instances of structured fields, each instance responsible for hosting content entered directly by the web page author through the browser window or identified by the web page authoring using the authoring tool. A composed web page is published, for example on the Internet. Thereafter, the composed web page can be rendered in a browser window of any client computer or device in a style consistent with the user-entered content in the web page editing region.
-
Citations
24 Claims
-
1. A method for composing a web page, comprising:
-
displaying a first browser window to a user, the first browser window including one or more user-specified instances of structured fields;
allowing the user to compose a web page in the first browser window by entering content into the user-specified instances of structured fields; and
displaying the composed web page in a second browser window in a manner consistent with the user-entered content in the first browser window. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
-
-
20. A method for composing a web page, comprising:
-
displaying an authoring web page including an embedded authoring tool, the authoring tool for composing the web page;
using the authoring tool, responding to user instructions by placing instances of predefined structured fields in the composed web page and associating user-specified content with the instances of the predefined structured fields; and
displaying the composed web page in a second browser window.
-
-
21. A browser-based web page authoring tool, comprising:
-
a web page editor embedded in an authoring web page, the authoring web page suitable for display by a browser; and
the web page editor including a web server communication interface for communication with a remote server;
wherein the web page editor is configured to;
update a web page displayed in a first browser window of the browser in accordance with user inputs;
save the user inputs to the remote server through the web server communication interface; and
display the web page in a second browser window of the browser in a manner consistent with the web page displayed in the first browser window of the browser in response to a user instruction. - View Dependent Claims (22)
-
-
23. A client-server based web page development system, comprising:
-
a client computer, the client computer including a browser and a web page editor embedded in an authoring web page displayed by the browser, wherein the web page editor enables a user to compose a web page using the browser;
a server computer, the server computer including a plurality of data structures for storing information about a web page composed at the client computer using the browser and the web page editor; and
a network connecting the client computer to the server computer. - View Dependent Claims (24)
-
Specification