Re: Deployment of CCI

Paul Burchard (burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu)
Mon, 5 Dec 94 18:14:38 -0700


Yosi Mass <yosi@ubique.co.il> writes:
> I have been playing with CCI (Common Client Interface)

> and Mosaic 2.5b and found it very powerfull.

The current version of CCI has a fatal flaw: it does not communicate
the URL of data passed between different viewers.

Because there are an increasing number of Web-enhanced formats
(Hyper-TeX, WebOOGL, VRML, etc.), assuming the HTML viewer to be the
"master" is no longer a viable model. In order for relative URLs to
work, viewers must communicate *full* information about the data to
be displayed by another viewer, including (especially) its URL.

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