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| Nov 5, 1996 | » | A Zooming Web Browser
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A Zooming Web Browser.
Bederson, Benjamin B.; Hollan, James D.; Stewart, Jason; Rogers, David; Vick, David; Ring, Laura; Grose, Eric; Forsythe, Chris.
Multimedia Computing and Networking, 1996. Vol. 2667.
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| May 6, 2020 | » | COVID-19
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Contact Tracing“Apps” in this context means contact tracing apps released by public health authorities to do contact tracing. The APIs are limited to them. Big PictureRelease APIs to enable apps to interoperate between Android and iOS devices. Bluetooth-based contact tracing baked into Android and iOS, such that no app is needed for broadcasting/listening. This ensures broad adoption, but will be on an opt-in basis. |
Interesting because these were the early days of the web, back when Netscape was king. The web could have evolved in different ways. Why didn’t the zooming browser catch on?
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