The Evolution of Web Application Architectures
Ken Abbott · Apress eBooks · 2002
This chapter briefly traces the architectural evolution of the Web from a simple mechanism for sharing published information electronically to its current role as a public infrastructure for communication, interaction, and commerce. In the big picture, enabling the Web with voice is just one piece of the larger mosaic that comprises the Web. At a more detailed level, voice-enabling technologies such as VoiceXML are just beginning on a growth path that has already been taken by vision-enabling technologies such as HTML.