[7574] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Web Scripting Languages (was: Re: two-way communication in html)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Mon Mar 6 18:11:37 1995
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 18:10:54 +0500
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From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
One simple and powerful application for a scripting language interface
in the web is to have the notion of `expires' be an expression that is
evaluated in some safe language. That is: at what point should this
client contact that server in order to update the information
contained therein?
The `expires' expression should be evaluatable in terms of time,
location of client, or a variety of `shared variables', which might
require client-side participation in a state variable maintenance
system, but would generalize the web protocols in an interesting and
safe way.
(The work on Mobisaic at last year's Web conference used this idea,
and I found it attractive.)
