Generic extensions of WWW browsers

  • Authors:
  • Ralf Hauser;Michael Steiner

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Technology Solutions Department, IBM Research Division Zürich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland;Information Technology Solutions Department, IBM Research Division Zürich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • WOEC'95 Proceedings of the 1st conference on USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Current WWW browsers provide two main services: communication and information rendering. While this is sufficient for some purposes, many future applications will need more sophisticated processing on the user side before server-data can be presented to the user or before the user input can be transferred to the servers. For example, electronic payments ought to be seamlessly integrated into a customer's browser to enable him to shop via the Web. This paper proposes two pragmatic approaches to fulfill these requirements without altering current browser technology. We conclude with the proposal of a generalized extension framework for WWW browsers.