Browser state of the art

Browsers are currently optimized for content display and hypertext navigation.
- Witness current inovation: cascading style sheets, plugins, ActiveX controls.
- Witness current bugs: Netscape now caches POST requests; not nice for Web application developers:
  - tell users to turn off caching
  - or - application developers send back Expire: headers
Conclusion: Web browsers are not the ideal application development platform. We need to consider Web application development outside of the browser.

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