- From: <S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 09:42:48 +0100 (BST)
- To: hammond@csc.albany.edu (William F. Hammond)
- Cc: martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk, www-talk@w3.org
William F. Hammond wrote: > > Has anyone actually provided for external handlers? > > Is anyone thinking about it? When I originally wrote my browser, all protocol modules were external (including http!), and in effect, the "browser" was an "HTML viewer". This worked OK until I needed a tighter coupling in order to provide most sophisticated feedback from the fetcher to the browser for progressive rendering etc., since it was not possible for the fetchers and the browser to co-operate fully enough by sharing the file handle for the incoming data stream. I do believe that eventually web browsers will become just a collection of filters though, even more so that is currently the case. -- Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/ http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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