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Foil 31 WebWindows Model

From General NPAC Foils-98A starting January 98 (PowerPoint) General Research -- January 98 -->. by Geoffrey C. Fox


This is implied by multi-tier model as it says in particular that client software is not hosted by native operating system but by the web browser running on client
This is seen dramatically in Internet Explorer integrated with Windows95 but this was not how it was meant to be
  • Rather Web browser should BE operating system as far as user is concerned and so both Microsoft and Netscape should be able to provide it ....
3 Tier Computing Model says that Object Web Technologies are used at both client and middle server tier and so this implies WebWindows
WebWindows surely says Java is an important language as natural implementation -- especially client side -- with applets



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