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Foil 8 Web Phase Transition/Revolution '95/'96 - II

From Problem Solving Environments from Simulation, Medicine and Defense using the Web CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
Some factors that contributed to this phase transition are:
Netscape2 plug-in support that attracted many software vendors to the Netscape platform
Successful Java marketing by Sun
Netscape's agile response to and support for Java, augmented by JavaScript/LifeWire add-on
Success of VRML/VAG forum that caused all major computer vendors to compete in the open VRML 2.0 design proposal contest
Aggressive use of the Web itself (and all of us...) by Netscape/Sun for marketing, distribution, debugging and customer feedback support of the Web software products via the sequence of ever changing/never really working alpha/beta releases
  • Why do we put up with so many bugs!

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