Rather, it is a general-purpose, object-oriented, multiplatform development environment that includes a dynamic language and a class library.
ScriptX was designed in an integrated fashion, making it smaller, more consistent, and easier to learn than equivalent traditional systems available at the time (for example a C++ environment and class library).
It has three major components: the Kaleida Media Player, the ScriptX Language Kit, and application development and authoring tools.
This consortium was called East/West Group because its members were drawn from both the East and West Coasts of the United States and it aimed to develop a new multimedia CD-ROM-based authoring environment for computer-based instructional material, based on ScriptX.
[2] However, the project soon encountered technical issues with the ScriptX technology, which exceeded the system requirements of many low-end machines which were expected to be used to consume the authored content; at the same time, it was increasingly becoming clear that the future was the Internet not CD-ROMs and Java had emerged as a commercially-available environment for producing cross-platform applications which met the project's requirements, without the technical issues the ScriptX-based solution had encountered.