Reference Code

Basic CERN libwww includes

• Remote object access
• Protocols: HTTP,FTP, Gopher, NNTP, local files, etc
• Formats: General engine, SGML and HTML engines
• Event-based architecture can operate as or in streams
• Portable C (ANSI/K&R) with OO flavor

Possibilities

• HTML-4 widget/control etc
• Other languages (c++? Modular 3 ???)
• Relative importance of code vs specs?
• Relative importance of test suites?
• Relative importance of example applications?

Tim BL, MIT & CERN. W3C Dec 94