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> Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > > Not exactly. Some frameworks are evolving to > > make using the classic HTML browser (ie, HTML > > as the host language of a universal intergace) > > less necessary. It is much cooler. I also said, > > if we want to use the term "web browser", that > > term becomes less descriptive of a specific > > platform and becomes more a watered down way > > to say, "web aware because it can use the > > operating system web services without using > > a line of HTML". > > Len, the Web architecture was always designed to make it easy to switch > HTML out. HTML has been an optional feature since day 1. If you want a > definition of web-browser that you can describe to someone on the > street, a web browser is an application with a URL-bar where you type in > a URL and the interface changes based on the information retreived. Bingo. This is, to me, the best definittion both to the man-on-the-street and to techies (who are used to reading IETF RFCs on a browser as plain text, after all). I think any insistence on skewering HTML sets up something of a straw man. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p y.html The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/ The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/ Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807 Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html
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