Standards to the rescue!

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by Lisa Rein , Tim Bray December 19, 1998 "Initially, we realized that we couldn't get a web connection from the boat," explains Dr. Jonathan Borden, chief scientist for JABR Technologies. "The only thing available was an e-mail connection. So we created the ability to use ASP pages over an SMTP E-mail connection." Borden created a customized SMTP server capable of conducting JavaScript transactions over the Web, using only open standards. Borden fully integrated the e-mail server with...n

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