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cactus picture NetCaster: Here's your spec
By Wesley Felter, wesf@mail.utexas.edu.

I have no idea how Castanet works (since it won't run on my Mac...), but my guess is that NetCaster will be another "download these urls every n hours" solution, but instead of a metafile format like CDF, it will use JavaScript commands embedded in pages to hold this information. If you think JavaScript is more standard than CDF (maybe it is, but it's a bit harder to implement a full scripting language than to read a formatted text file), then NetCaster is better than CDF. Otherwise, not.

I think the point of NetCaster is to make push hard enough to do that you'll have to license it from Marimba. If anyone can add CDF support to their browser in a day or two, how does Microsoft make money from that? They don't, because they don't want to. Everything at Netscape must make money. If it's not making money, they don't want to do it. Microsoft realizes that growing the market is more important than making money short-term.


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