Re: Deployment of CCI

Bert Bos (bert@let.rug.nl)
Tue, 6 Dec 1994 13:55:00 +0100 (MET)

May I suggest my W3A proposal? It is an API: every `applet' consists
of a few compiled functions and is dynamically loaded by the central
browser. There are 5 types of applets: agent, filter, viewer,
printer-driver, and accessory.

Advantages: applets are small, can be distributed in binary, are easy
to write.

Disadvantages: no support for interpreted languages yet (but a Python
interface is likely to be developed)

External viewers a la Mosaic are already supported, by means of a
90-line applet. M-CCI could be supported in the same way.

More info: <http://www.let.rug.nl/~bert/W3A/W3A>

Bert

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