Where Next?
Language Support for Arabic, Kanjii ...
- Unicode and other encodings will be used for transfer of multilingual
documents
Greater emphasis on Meta-Information
- URCs and URNs will become critically important to dependability as
the Web scales up and up ... (distributed eager and
lazy caching)
Better support for collaborative activities
- Blurring the distinction between email and news. Phone for
human
assistance by clicking on links in HTML documents
Fractal image encoding
- This technique offers very high compression ratios for suitable images
Drawing/painting formats
- This will allow information providers to deliver lavish images that
are reconstructed by the browser, e.g. with naturalistic paint media
and procedural textures. Scripting languages will give HyperCard-like
capabilities.
Virtual Reality Modelling Language
- VRML 1.0 is largely derived from SGI's OpenInventor format, and
will allow consumers to walk through shopping malls ...