Doing Things with the Web: Where Applications Execute
Presenter: Steve Lewontin
The Web supports a rich set of mechanisms for creating custom applications
to extend browser and server functionality, including CGI, client and
server plug-in APIs, Java, scripting languages, and ActiveX controls.
The goal of this tutorial is to give content developers, Web masters,
and others a good sense of which technologies are appropriate for the
kinds of Web customization they want to do and to describe the sofware,
tools, and skill sets required to use each one. The tutorial surveys
the available mechanisms, describing the capabilities of each,
explaining the basic steps for application development, and providing
examples of appropriate uses. The tutorial also focuses on important
problems and limitations,including security issues and the use of
non-standard and proprietary interfaces.
Instructor Bio:
Steve Lewontin is a principal research engineer at The Open Group
Research Institute (TOGRI). he was responsible for the design and
implementation of DCE Web, an early secure Web protocol. His
paper on DCE Web received first prize at the WWW2 Conference in
Chicago. Steve has also worked with other members of the TOGRI
(on extension mechanisms behind servers, in the HTTP stream, and
executing in clients.
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