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: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:26:05 -0400
James Tauber wrote:

>
> 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).
>
 Sounds a bit like "xul" eh? Is this similar to the notion of behaviors or
namespace handlers?

Jonathan Borden
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net



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