[7737] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: browser enhancement suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Hartill)
Sat Mar 25 10:46:24 1995
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 20:09:55 +0500
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From: Rob Hartill <hartill@ooo.lanl.gov>
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Re: cron-like feature built into www browsers.
I like the idea, but this could be seen as overloading the
browser.
A far more useful (IMO) approach, is one which I've seen dicsussed
on these "the future of computers" type TV shows - one where you
have a program dedicated to doing this kind of slave robot work.
I'd be happier to have a separate system that I could tell to
fire up Netscape at 2am to go check on the weather forecast for
the day, or to run myapp to destroy all files that more than a week old
in my wastebasket.
All this could be possible with a user-fiendly interface to cron, with
no overloading of www clients.
rob
