Re: XSL and Web Native distributed computing, was Re: HTML i

Hi James.

I am *very* interested in this area, are there any references you can give
to the document shell and Plan X?

Personaly I'm starting to think less and less in terms of a browser and
more in terms of a user agent/shell, so examining these ideas would be
useful.

Cheers

     Guy.






xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 04/28/99 02:36:59 AM

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Subject:  Re: XSL and Web Native distributed computing, was Re: HTML i




> 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 "?berdocument 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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