- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 14:55:29 PST
- To: FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com
- Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
One simple and powerful application for a scripting language interface in the web is to have the notion of `expires' be an expression that is evaluated in some safe language. That is: at what point should this client contact that server in order to update the information contained therein? The `expires' expression should be evaluatable in terms of time, location of client, or a variety of `shared variables', which might require client-side participation in a state variable maintenance system, but would generalize the web protocols in an interesting and safe way. (The work on Mobisaic at last year's Web conference used this idea, and I found it attractive.)
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