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  Monday, January 13, 2003 

Services and links

Service advertisement techniques such as UDDI are not likely to pass the View Source test anytime soon, and will not be easy for most people to imitate. What people can do, pretty easily, is post links. Services that express themselves in terms of links will, therefore, create powerful affordances for use, for imitation, and for discovery. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]

 

The interactive intermediary

The scriptable DOM (Document Object Model) was always an intoxicating idea. Mobile scripts that lived in Web pages -- and could inspect and modify their hosts -- seemed rich with possibility. But when I saw the gymnastics those poor scripts had to perform in order to detect and adapt to browser versions, I recoiled in horror. There was no way I was going to use, or recommend, such a fragmented technology. Recently, though, my LibraryLookup project has reacquainted me with the world of JavaScript and the DOM. I was pleasantly surprised to find that scripts I wrote in Mozilla, under Mac OS X, worked identically under MSIE 6 on Windows. This is great news! It means that we're now in a position to reap the benefits of a class of software I'll call "interactive service intermediaries." [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

 


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