Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:24:09 -0800 (PST)
From: | Eugene Eric Kim |
eekim@eekim.com Reply-To: unrev-II@egroups.com |
To: | unrev-II@egroups.com |
Subject: | OHS Meeting at SRI on 010122 Demonstrate BrowseUp |
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Eric Armstrong wrote....
I take it that our collective opinion is now more in favor of a smarter client?
How much effort is it to install that proxy, anyway? Or is it pretty transparent? (Or does a remote server actually serve as the "proxy", so that you have to visit that server and, from there, go to other points on the Web?
As Jack pointed out [in his letter on January 24, 2001] using the term "proxy server" in his original description was misleading, although there's no reason why the system couldn't be implemented that way. At the risk of repeating what others have already stated, here's my summary, along with some brief commentary.
BrowseUp allows you to create links from any HTML page to any other HTML page. It consists of:
You can also annotate the links.
The link server stores all of this information, as well as thumbnails of the information being linked, and the "quality" of the links. Link quality is an attribute used for displaying available links, that is based on the frequency a link is viewed and presumably other information as well.
The link server is written in Java, and apparently communicates on top of HTTP. They were apparently designed to be widely distributed, so that these link servers could be found all over the Net. BrowseUp has some solution for problems such as link integrity and modified documents, although I think I may have missed that part of the discussion.
There was some discussion about social consequences of unrestricted linking that was interesting and important, but I won't rehash them here.
Some thoughts:
I know Doug is pursuing the collaboration angle, but there are certainly things that we can do in the meantime.
The best is to just try using the tool. I think there are many things we can learn about some of its fundamental linking features and about BrowseUp's own implementation of these features, which could lead to:
... and I'm sure Alon and company would welcome feedback.
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