Generic Extensions of WWW Browsers

February 13, 1996 Abstract Current WWW browsers provide two main services: communication and information rendering. While this is sufficient for some purposes, many future applications will need more sophisticated processing on the user side before server-data can be presented to the user or before the user input can be transferred to the servers. For example, electronic payments ought to be seamlessly integrated into a customer's browser to enable him to shop via the Web. This paper proposes two pragmatic approaches to fulfill these requirements without altering current browser technology. We conclude with the proposal of a generalized extension framework for WWW browsers. 1 Introduction The World Wide Web (WWW) has grown extremely fast in the past months, not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. New services are being added on a day-by-day basis and range from telephone directories to movie databases and "shopping malls". In particular, the "POST"-Method of HTTP [1] ..

Generic Extensions of WWW Browsers

June 23, 1995 Abstract Current WWW browsers provide two main services: communication and information rendering. While this is sufficient for some purposes, many future applications will need more sophisticated processing on the user side before server-data can be presented to the user or before the user input can be transferred to the servers. For example, electronic payments ought to be seamlessly integrated into a customer's browser to enable him to shop via the Web. This paper proposes two pragmatic approaches to fulfill these requirements without altering current browser technology. We conclude with the proposal of a generalized extension framework for WWW browsers. 1 Introduction The World Wide Web (WWW) has grown extremely fast in the past months, not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. New services are being added on a day-by-day basis and range from telephone directories to movie databases and "shopping malls". In particular, the "POST"-Method of HTTP [1] and the "FOR..

Generic Extensions of WWW Browsers

August 10, 1995 Abstract Current WWW browsers provide two main services: communication and information rendering. While this is sufficient for some purposes, many future applications will need more sophisticated processing on the user side before server-data can be presented to the user or before the user input can be transferred to the servers. For example, electronic payments ought to be seamlessly integrated into a customer's browser to enable him to shop via the Web. This paper proposes two pragmatic approaches to fulfill these requirements without altering current browser technology. We conclude with the proposal of a generalized extension framework for WWW browsers. 1 Introduction The World Wide Web (WWW) has grown extremely fast in the past months, not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. New services are being added on a day-by-day basis and range from telephone directories to movie databases and "shopping malls". In particular, the "POST"-Method of HTTP [1] an..