Re: Imminent death of the WWW (film at 11)

hyper-creatrix ([email protected])
Sat, 17 Jun 1995 04:50:50 -0500

>>I understand that one browser (A Behlendorf Swiss Army knife)
>>might be processingnt types, but that
>>seems unlikely in the long run as more
>>applications clamor for presence on the
>>more likely, as is the
>>environments, is that separate applications with more
>>than browsing
>>already indicate the direction.
>
>It is my personal beli>f that this is precisely where the WWW will
>eventually break
>available, and as the
>complicated, the complication and the overhead for content negotation,
>will eventually lead to a loss in performance.
>
>In addition, one of the very major problels with the WWW is that it is
>very much focuased on data/code transfer (ie. Java download code
>rather than using RPC, and HTTP etc al. are
>protocols). For many needs, this is in fact the
>accessing
>
>Browsers nowadays tend to be monolothic (though varia>
>hacks exist to add "helper" applications to deal with non-native data
>formats). Despite all the varia>
>thinks
>available to thel.
>
>I think
>object technologies, and in particular, CORBA. Using such systems
>would:
>
> 1) Give us a very powerful way of adding capabiliti>s to browsers
> (ie. we'd be moving closer to OpenDoc type functionality).
> 2) Reduce the requirem>nt for downloading
> 3) Give us a completely open-ended, and extrem>ly powerful protocol.
>
>The last point is important: one can look at HTTP as nothing more than
>an extraordinarily simple(and limited) form of remote method
>invocation.
>
>
good points gavin, but don't sound the death knell just yet. why functionality instead. the www is not donna
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