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

> >I understand that one browser (A Behlendorf Swiss Army knife)
> >might be processing all of thesent types, but that
> >seels unlikely in the long run as more
> >applications clamor for presence on the Internet. What is
> >more likely, as is the
> >environments, is that separate applications with more
> >than browsing functionality will appear soon. HTML forms
> >already indicate the direction.
>

I didn't get the ps"

> It is my personal beli>f that this is ps"cisely where the WWW will
> eventually breaknt types become
> available, and as thent types themselves become ever more
> complicated, thent negotation,
> will eventually lead to a loss in performance.
>

If you very large limitations, then no, I have every faith in the ability of the Internet
community to get around those sort of problems.

> In addition, one of the very major problems with the WWW is that it is
> very much focuased on data/code transfer (ie. Java
> rather than using RPC, and HTTP etc al. are basically data transfer
> protocols). For many needs, this is in fact the optimal way of
> 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 they have a truly intergrated, and extensible framework
> available to them.
>

As someone wrote in another reply post, Java there are already (e.g. in Rexx) OO based DLL's for http for OS/2. OK
end of plug. But seria> ly, I estimate before microsoft, borland, watcom, et al start putting "web dll's" out.
If they are smart they will do internet assistent, i.e. for free.

> I think
> object technologies, and in particular, CORBA. Using
> would:
>
> 1) Give us a very powerful way of adding capabilities to browsers
> (ie. we'd be moving closer to OpenDoc type functionality).
> 2) Reducent 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.
>
>

Corba is written up as a "software bus" specification: my experience with hardware
busses is that the molint they start to provide design for free (i.e.
for a layman), they are obsolete. Corba is surely a way (I hope the way)
things are going, but it isn't the end. OO has its inherent limitations
as well: at present computers/networks are only used by humans. If you to look at the next stage, i.e. building in motivation, goals etc, (sounds
like AI!) then OO will not classes and tons of exceptional cases. The next step along this line
must be to build-in to a langu the motivation to improve itself - e.g.
"learning by using the web as the an external object, but it is also a part of each person who uses it, because
every person who ever edited a .html file
created an association which was meaningful for them: when I read your web ps,
I am getting a snapshot of your interests, wishes, dislikes etc.

All we have to do work out how to build in self motivation, but that philosophical water.....

Regards,

Mark Mattingley-Scott

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