Re: XSL and Web Native distributed computing, was Re: HTML is a

Subject: Re: XSL and Web Native distributed computing, was Re: HTML is a
From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:36:59 +0800
> I read you post with keen interest as it addresses distributed computing,
> and goes beyond the document-centric view of XML/XSL and considers the
"Web
> application". I've been trying to track related areas myself, and firmly
> believe that FOs are just the starting point, and wondered if others had
> considered a future set of presentation objects to address GUIs?

I think this has a lot of promise. I was thinking of this sort of thing when
I made a request last year for FOs for a Tree Control.

Actually, back in early 1996 (hence pre-XML), when I was working at Sun
Labs, I proposed a "browser" that bootstrapped itself by downloading Java
classes and reading configuration information in SGML. The idea was that the
entire GUI and all the functionality would be downloaded in a modular
fashion so that the "browser" would be entirely extensible (hence the scare
quotes around browser, because it could in theory become any application by
downloading the right classes and reading the right SGML).

This also relates to the "OS as XML document" idea I've proposed in various
fora (mostly xml-dev) going by the various names of "überdocument shell" and
"Plan X". Once I get through the current pile of work to do, I'm hoping to
put some information about this stuff on the Web.

James
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