21 Nov
2001
21 Nov
'01
7:34 a.m.
Hi,
"Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> said:
I've watched both Netscape and IE wander back and forth between higher and lower
levels of integration but haven't seen much improvement. Of course, it not hard
to confuse change with progress.
True, but Cyberdog was *fundamentally* different. It was basically a
technology demonstrator for Apple's OpenDoc. As Doug Quebbeman said
earlier: " Cyberdog was essentially a container for a series
of net-enabled OpenDoc components."
Using the Cyberdog doc builder, you could basically roll your own
browser with your own graphics, buttons and only those functions
you wanted. All elements opened in their own movable re-sizable
windows rather than in a huge monolithic window. As Apple said:
"What is Cyberdog?
Cyberdog is a suite of Internet components that allows you to browse
the World Wide Web, receive and send e-mail, read articles from Usenet
newsgroups, browse AppleTalk zones and servers, exchange files with FTP,
and log into other computers with Telnet. Cyberdog provides tight
integration between these components, and with other OpenDoc
applications."
Altogether a fine piece of work for 1994. Sadly died when OpenDoc was
killed off...which makes it obsolete technology and (nearly) on topic!
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!