1. A client/server system enabling a web server to embed non-HTML objects in a representation of a non-HTML object in a HTML object, said system comprising: a web server; one or more databases associated with the web server; one or more non-HTML objects stored on the one or more databases; and a client comprising a browser, the browser being operable to communicate a request to the server to access the one or more non-HTML objects; wherein the web server, upon receipt of said request, retrieves the one or more objects, translates the one or more objects to an HTML representation of that object and returns to the browser the HTML representation of the one or more objects embedded in an HTML object.