- From: Rich Wiggins <WIGGINS@msu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 95 19:00:00 EDT
- To: www-talk@w3.org
>Not strictly necessary. You may forward any such prior art to the >people or company who have filed the patent application. They are >required to bring it to the attention of the PTO. > >Kevin Gross >Centra Wow! Not being an attorney, I'm wondering what the definitions are of terms like "World-Wide Web" and "interactive" and "bi-directional communications between browser and external application". At the first Internet Gopher workshop, held in August 1992, I recall we had a lot of discussion of scripting -- Gopher client downloads an application which interacts with the user. As I recall, Iowa had done some experimentation with that. The idea of scripting seemed pretty obvious to us at the time; we all had concerns about security, of course. But seems to me we were talking about *downloadable scripts* that would be *executed externally from the Gopher browser*; and certainly we had *interactive applications* in mind. Now if Gopher is a subset or a part of the Web.... /rich
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