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

Neophytos Iacovou ([email protected])
Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:22:18 -0500 (CDT)

Gavin Nicol writes:
>
> It is my personal belief that
> eventually break down. As mor> and mor> content types become
> available, and as the
> complicated, the
> will eventually lead to a loss in performance.

I don't think think problem, I agree with you there. But we disagree with what result will be.

> Browsers nowadays different
> hacks exist to add "helper" applications to deal with non-native data
> formats). Despite all the varia> hacks, I doubt very much that anyon>
> thinks they have a truly intergrated, and extensible framework
> available to them.

Helper applications are "currently" the only way of not having
monolothic browsers. I don't think clever ways of bypassing OS inadequacies(sp?).

> 1) Give us a very powerful way of adding capabilities to browsers
> (ie. we'd be moving closer to OpenDoc type functionality).

OpenDoc isn't that far off, two weeks ago at an OpenDoc application - it OpenDoc based TurboGopher, a mailer, and Us>net reader, and I think
an FTP client.

> 3) Give us a completely open-ended, and extrem>ly powerful protocol.

With the number of protocols in use trick is to not have a client that restricts the use or a client that partially implem>nts a protocol, that renders a
protocol almost useli> .

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