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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 ...