Editing ViolaWWW (section)

==Viola==
Released in 1992,<ref name="about" /> Viola was the invention of [[Pei-Yuan Wei]], a member of the [[eXperimental Computing Facility|Experimental Computing Facility]] (XCF) at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="faq" /><ref name="about">{{cite web|title=ViolaWWW Hypertext Browser|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Viola/violaWWWAbout.html|access-date=28 July 2010|author=Pei-Yuan Wei|author-link=Pei-Yuan Wei}}</ref> Viola was a [[UNIX]]-based programming/scripting language; the [[acronym]] stood for "Visually Interactive Object-oriented Language and Application".<ref name="GilliesCailliau2000"/>

Pei's interest in graphically based software began with [[HyperCard]], which he first encountered in 1989. Of that, Pei said, "HyperCard was very compelling back then, you know graphically, this hyperlink thing, it was just not very global and it only worked on Mac... and I didn't even have a Mac". Only having access to [[X terminal]]s, Pei, in 1990, created the first version of Viola for such terminals: "I got a HyperCard manual and looked at it and just basically took the concepts and implemented them..."<ref name="GilliesCailliau2000">{{cite book|author1=James Gillies|author2=R. Cailliau|title=How the Web was born: the story of the World Wide Web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIH-JijUNS0C&pg=PA213|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-286207-5|pages=213–217}}</ref>

Pei released Viola 0.8 in 1991.<ref name="GilliesCailliau2000" />