A Programmer's Guide to the New Software Development Paradigm
by Andrew Schulman
Chapter 12
HTML Everywhere
Last revised: March 31, 1997
In chapter 7, we saw that what is called a web browser is really more
general purpose: a display engine. This display engine is driven with
a text-based protocol called HTML. In this final chapter, we see the
wider implications of this: HTML for email, for word-processing and
spreadsheet documents (Office 97: at what point does HTML become the
"native" file format for all these "productivity" applications?); for
remote system administration (web "gateways" to Unix tools),
controlling embedded devices (see smallest.pharlap.com), etc. The
chapter title takes off on Microsoft's old slogan "Windows
Everywhere." ("Local CGI" fits in here too.)
Alex Shmidt's HTML version of DUMPB is perfect example!