Benefits of Web-izing Your Applications

Your application can now provide whatever user-interface it wants to; no longer limited to HTML.
Your application can maintain state information.
Your application can now control the flow of any windows it puts up; the user can no longer page back to outdated windows.
Your application can obtain data 'generically' via HTTP, instead of relying on proprietary database interfaces.

Patrick J. Mueller (pmuellr@raleigh.ibm.com)
For the 1996 Smalltalk Solutions Panel on Smalltalk and the Web