Through a standard web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, IntraDisk provides a free text search facility without infringing on the royalty-free benefits of HTML publishing. HTML format has a number of significant benefits and with the addition of the ISYS search utility and proliferation of browsers on the market, ISYS for IntraDisk introduces a new standard in information publishing. CD publishing in HTML has been gaining popularity in recent years, but Odyssey executives expect the addition of the ISYS search engine will propel IntraDisk into the media of tomorrow. The publisher only needs to produce one type of CD for all potential clients. HTML reduces licensing and royalty charges.
Most software is licensed on a per-CD basis, proving very costly.
If the CD is produced in HTML, most users have a browser and if not, because many browsers are free, the publisher can attach one. Information need only be produced once. A CD published in HTML provides totally transparent linkages from the local publication to the Internet. The format is completely scalable so you can publish your information on floppy disk, CD, across your WAN, network shared CDs, or across the entire Internet. Publishers have been creating CDs in HTML for these reasons but have been forced to sacrifice the convenience of a search engine.