Wow! Not being an attorney, I'm wondering what the definitions are
of terms like "World-Wide Web" and "interactive" and "bi-directional
communications between browser and external application".
At the first Internet Gopher workshop, held in August 1992, I
recall we had a lot of discussion of scripting -- Gopher client
downloads an application which interacts with the user. As
I recall, Iowa had done some experimentation with that. The
idea of scripting seemed pretty obvious to us at the time;
we all had concerns about security, of course.
But seems to me we were talking about *downloadable scripts* that
would be *executed externally from the Gopher browser*; and
certainly we had *interactive applications* in mind. Now
if Gopher is a subset or a part of the Web....
/rich