[5872] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Forms support in clients
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auerbach)
Wed Sep 28 01:22:59 1994
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 05:17:15 +0100
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From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
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> I'm not convinced that this is as model-breaking as you think:
??
> > Some mechanism, not yet existing, would have
> > to be invented to let the watcher tell my viewer that something new
> > and interesting (as defined by my script) is out there.
>
> What do you mean by "my viewer"? If, for example, you're willing to be
> notified by email, the watcher can simply send you an active email (e.g.
> Safe-Tcl) message that points you in the right direction....
"Viewer" == Mosaic++, ...etc
I want to get a response that is in such a form that an integrated
intelligent viewer can give a homogeneous interface to the user.
I would expect that using e-mail would be difficult to smoothly
integrate and probably a pain to administer. Rather, I would want a
more unified and consistent exhange mechanism, so that, for example,
only one TCP connection need be used.
I'm rather opposed to building world-wide mechanisms using the
duct-tape-and-bailing wire mechanisms found in e-mail, particularly
Un*x based e-mail.
(Of course, who am I to complain, considering I've been promoting IP
over e-mail [and punched paper tape] for years.)
--karl--
