Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 4 1999

Foil 72 What Objects should we look at first and what services do we need?

From The Document Object Model - Universal Access - Other Objects - CORBA XML Jini JavaScript etc. Tango Seminar to DoD Modernization MSRC -- April 6 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox
So web documents are the natural choice but actually this doesn't say so much as they can have
  • Java Applets
  • Active X controls
  • General helper applications
And "everything" exports itself to the web including Microsoft Word and Macromedia authoring systems
  • Actually Microsoft Word is rumored to be moving to XML internal form and "Save as HTML" is a reasonable representation of most Word documents
So we will consider first Web documents constructed according to W3C DOM

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