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cactus picture Pull is not Push
By Wesley Felter, wesf@mail.utexas.edu.

"Two things are absolutely true: one is that the technology of push and pull are the same. You don't need this whole new generation of tools and formats and protocols that companies like Pointcast are trying to come up with." --Marc Andreessen in Rolling Stone 759

You'd almost think Marc wrote this page.

Part Two

From news.com:
Netscape executives have said they don't plan to support [CDF], criticizing it as unnecessary. Instead, the company has promoted standard Web technologies, such as HTML and JavaScript, as the tools for creating Webcast content.

JavaScript is standard. An interesting position.

To be continued...


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