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Are Web browsers really universal clients?

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Hardly. Every few months Web browser vendors add a few more capabilities to their browsers that get them closer and closer to a GUI programming environment:

Browsers still have a long way to go. One of the most common (ab)uses of JavaScript today is scrolling status bars. Wow!


Patrick J. Mueller (pmuellr@acm.org)
OOPSLA '96 Workshop on "Toward the integration of WWW and Distributed Object Technology"