Re: Why the Web?

> This reminds me of the folks who built RPC systems by setting properties
> on the root window of a specified X Window System server.  It was the
> only piece of software they had that was reasonably well implemented...

I don't understand this.  HTTP was designed to support this type of
coarse grained interaction style that involves transferring
representations of resources around the network.  In my thermostat
example, I was using it *exactly* as it was designed to be used.
There is simply no comparison to that hack job you described.

MB
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Received on Friday, 14 December 2001 14:05:12 UTC