To achieve more powerful user interfaces, HTML isn’t necessarily the only tool or even the best tool.
Predictor: Behlendorf, Brian
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 e-mail to a discussion group, Brian Behlendorf writes the following: ”The arguments for Netscape engineers extending HTML versus breaking clean and going with a new document language with various new capabilities has been backwards compatability and ease of authoring. I.e., it’s much easier for the average HTML author to learn to type
Brian Behlendorf was a key innovator in the development of Web commerce. At the outset of the 1990s, he was chief engineer at Wired magazine’s inception and later helped start up HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites. He spent 1993-98 as co-founder and CTO at Organic Online, one of the first Web design and engineering consulting firms. While there, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling language) effort, and assisted several IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: August 20, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Generalizing Banners
Title, headline, chapter name: Generalizing Banners
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.nyct.net/~aray/htmlwg/95q3/787.html
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