4.Web presents both opportunity and challenge for comparing data

• Static Internet data was used in early World Wide Web browsers Netscape and Mosaic (before JAVA)

• Uses standard client-server HTTP Web paradigm suited for static documents

  user's Web browser <------ Internet ------> Web server 
  
       Steps:  1. Request for data           ===>
               2. Data returned from server <===
  

• Can't easily interact with data, although could bring up derived static images

• Internet is too slow to realistically do real-time interactive processing from the Web server

• Key question: How can we do real-time processing locally on our computers but use data from the internet and from our local laboratory?

 

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