HELP! * GREEN=global GREY=local Global HTML version of Foils prepared 12 October 1995

Foil 67 Weak Points in Web Technology

From Challenges and Opportunities for Information Technology in ECS ECS Faculty Retreat -- 15 October 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
static, browser-oriented client
data (information in a narrow sense) repository
tedious to manage and update (HTML) files on the server side
difficult to keep most updated data automatically --- modifies usually done by a human using word processor or editing tools
A plain UNIX file system only supports primitive functions such as open,read/write and close.
  • More powerful operations on files are required for an information system which is supposed to provide information instead of raw data,
  • i.e., low-level data manipulation operators such as those provided in RDBMS: select, insert, update, commit, rollback,etc.
  • Meaningful data needs to be generated on-the-fly from raw data
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