Hypertext markup language as an authoring tool for CD-ROM production.

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) used to create Web pages is an attractive alternative to the proprietary authoring software that is now widely used to produce multimedia content for CD-ROMs. This paper describes the advantages and limitations of HTML as a non-proprietary and cross-platform CD-ROM authoring system, and the more general advantages of HTML as data standard for biocommunications content.