Re: WWW and prospero

Jean-Francois Groff (jfg@bernd.cern.ch)
Sat, 9 Nov 91 12:13:19 +0100


> As an aside, it would be really nice if WWW could be taught the
> Prospero protocol like it knows WAIS....

This has a high priority in our wish-list, but we are very busy
preparing a new kernel for WWW (you can call it WOW if you can't
pronounce that !), which features multiple TYPED links from/to each
anchor, so you can write knowbots for instance, and fast (we hope)
format negotiation between clients and servers.

The availability of this will be announced on the www-interest mailing
list. To register on that, send a mail to listserv@info.cern.ch with
body text "add www-interest". Your mail address will be extracted from
the From: field.

Sorry, no firm dates yet, but expect it by the end of the year.

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Jean-Francois Groff (jfg@cernvax.cern.ch)
World-Wide Web project
CERN, ECP division
CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 767 3755
Fax: +41 22 767 7155
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