Embedded browser functionality and communications protocol stacks will be available as dynamic software libraries to all client applications. Documents penetrated by any client application will be able to embed URLs, allowing users to jump to the referenced Web site by clicking on an embedded icon or highlighted text string from within the receiving application.
Predictor: Kobielus, James
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Network World, James Kobielus, a senior telecommunications analyst with LCC, an Arlington, Va.-based network design and engineering firm, writes about the future of networking: ”No monolithic browser will take the place of the monolithic operating systems and GUIs of yore. Embedded browser functionality and communications protocol stacks will be available as dynamic software libraries to all client applications. Documents penetrated by any client application will be able to embed URLs, allowing users to jump to the referenced Web site by clicking on an embedded icon or highlighted text string from within the receiving application.”
Date of prediction: November 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Network World
Title, headline, chapter name: Browsers Are Coming on Strong as the Preferred Application Launching Point
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000008680917&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=1&Idx=1&Sid=3&RQT=309
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney