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Foil 17 I.7: More Technology Background: Complexity of the Expanding Web

From Master Foilset for Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Original client-server and HTML/CGI based WWW acquires now several new architectural components.
Server side CGI technologies are being challenged by Netscape LiveWire scripted model which is more consistent with the JavaScript at the client-side.
The emergent generation of Java based HTTP daemons offers new dimensions for fully programmable and state-aware Web servers. (Critical for Collaboration servers)
Documents, previously expressed in terms of easy to learn HTML, are now enriched by Java applets and JavaScript inserts which requires programming expertise for content development.
Several middleware/agent technologies are under development, such as Telescript (intelligent agents), helper/plugins, collaboratory servers, whiteboards, chat rooms etc.

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