- From: William F. Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:12:44 -0400 (EDT)
- To: FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com, scott@earthweb.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
*** Web-related inter-process communication (IPC) ***
Scott Swanson writes in www-html:
: . . .
: > Walter Ian Kaye writes in <v03007802ae1977f4204e@[205.149.180.135]>:
: > . . .
: > Instead of that, make the newsreader and emailer dynamically linkable
: > somehow.
: . . .
: Um, Internet Config, anyone?
: That seems ideal. API, consolidated helper info, etc. Already
: done, extensible, and doesn't seem to conflict with anything.
Mark Fisher writes in response to Scott Swanson:
: Now, if there were just versions for Win3.1, WinNT, and UNIX...
I assume that this interchange is in reference to a platform- and
OS-specific means of establishing inter-process communication between
web-related applications.
What we need is a ** public cross-platform standard ** for
coordinating intra-platform OS-level processes under the control of
independently written and compiled, but cooperating, applications.
Can anyone supply information or references (URLs or otherwise) on
this topic?
There was a hint from somebody at NCSA a couple of weeks ago in
www-html that something like this might be forthcoming.
(Can "Internet Config" be construed to be based on a public cross-
platform standard?)
The topic of IPC is more about web application design than about HTML
language design, and it should be moved to "www-talk". (And, indeed,
it goes beyond web applications.)
Thanks.
-- Bill
Received on Tuesday, 23 July 1996 16:13:09 UTC