Introduction

There is a trend towards replacing monolithic general-purpose Web browsers by more finely-tuned Web applications enhanced with user-specific functionality, such as for example applets that allow for user-interaction or the display of dynamic information.

This raises the issue of what support should be provided for developing such applications. So a workshop was organized for the WWW5 entitled Programming the Web - a search for APIs with the goal of defining requirements for high-level APIs and frameworks for Web programming, and characterizing suitable components for Web-aware applications.


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