In this paper, I describe a tool for helping Web-page authors to write
complex interactive applications. The motivation for this arose from a
project I did for the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) [Institute for Fiscal Studies], an
independent London-based economics research organisation. Some
background on their work may be helpful here. This section also contains
some comments on the difficulty of conventional Web programming. Readers
wishing to get straight on with Web-O-Matic may skip to
Section 2.