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- > I would like to know, whether anybody has extended WWW such, that it is possible
- > to start arbitrary programs by hitting a button in a WWW browser.
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- > Hyberbole has this feature and it could also make WWW much more mighty.
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- > Included is a short discussion with Pei Y. Wei on this issue. >
- > By the way, many thanks to Tim Berners-Lee in general, to Pei Y. Wei for his
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- > wonderful violaWWW browser and to all people involved in the WWW project.
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- > Arnold
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- Very good question. The problem is that of programming language. You need
- something really powerful, but at the same time ubiquitous. Remember a facet of the
- web is universal readership. There is no universal interptreted programming
- language. But there are some close tries. (lisp, sh). You also need something
- which can run in a very safe mode, to prevent virus attacks.
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- Ideally, the language should include object-oriented inheritance, a basically
- functional nature, and a clean syntax. It should be interpretable and compilable.
- At least one public domain. A pre-compiled standard binary form would be cool too.
- It isn't here yet.
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- In reality, what we would be able to offer you real soon now with document format
- negotiation is the ability to return a document in some language for execution,
- with the option of being able to provide it in several languages, the language
- being a "data format" which can be negotiated between client and server at
- run-time. For, for example, one could provide it in viola script and/or in /bin/sh
- which would cover most ofthe unix world.
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- Tim BL
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