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Foil 12 Next Generation TangoInteractive

From Overview of Shared Places on the Web XML Developers Conference Montreal -- August 19-20 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Lukasz Beca, Marek Podgorny


So let us imagine that we can redo all of this and assume that
  • The proxy ruse is correct and one does only need to share client side Web Pages
  • There are plenty of conventional web pages but full support for XML and W3C DOM in browsers
  • XML can be used for control pages and specialized pages such as those produced by web-linked databases and education portals
Collaboration implies sharing of electronic objects and is needed in Asynchronous and Synchronous modes
Asynchronous mode is MOST important (in all applications including distance education) and will be supported by run of the mill object web infrastructure
  • shared web pages and documents
  • electronic mail
Synchronous mode has important applications and not done fully by giants ...



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