Interesting Marc Andreessen speech notes

[Michael Gersten]

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try webspace.  right now on the sgi only, coming soon
for multiple platforms.  first implementation of the 

vrml standard in a browser (that i know of).
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Ok, what is webspace, and what is vrml?

When I use the feedback option of OmniWeb, and it goes to lighthouse, does it get forwarded to  
Omni, or am I shouting into space?

Also: How do you register on HotWired with OmniWeb?
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Something I was thinking of, and I'd like to get some feedback from others (this should probably go  
to a general html list, but I don't know of any)

What about a client html server?

This would be a server that knows how to contact other html sites, and get pages or return  
responses. It would have a user interface consisting of shell commands, or services, or distributed  
objects, that would allow you to give a URL and get back the text of the URL; or to give it a URL and  
a REF from that file, and it would return a URL of that REF; or you could give it a URL and a  
response (such as from filling out a form from that html doc), and so on.

The benefits? All your html/http code is in one central place. That one place can be made  
multithreaded without any problems (no appkit code anywhere). It can implement caching that  
persists across multiple uses of many browsers.

It could even be in a central place; say, you got 50 or 60 machines spread across a large company,  
and one central http caching server for all the clients.

Now, you'd need some other things as well, such as "force reload of this page", as well as some way  
to tell if the document has changed (and specify how often you check for that). But this could be  
very useful -- you could have a shell script grab a html file, parse it for a form, and then fill it out and  
return it -- all from a script.

In other words, it would put http back into the world of unix tools.

Comments/criticisms/anything about html that I'm totally missing here?

Unless I'm way off base, I'm assuming that a given URL will either generate output (such as a .html  
file, or a ftp: url), or will demand input (such as a mailto: ref, or a forms submission); as such, you  
have two basic programs, and a bunch of support utilities.

		Michael
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