Re: [unrev-II] WebNav -- a dynamic Java applet for navigating the Memex and Beyond site

From: John J. Deneen (JJDeneen@ricochet.net)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 13:05:06 PDT

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    Here's more food for thought:
    http://memex.org/meme3-01.html
    http://msp.sfsu.edu/Lectureseries/archive96/engelbart.html

    Jack Park wrote:

    > Well, the plot thickens...This
    > paperhttp://www.dlib.org/dlib/june96/hearst/06hearst.htmltalks about a
    > range of user interfaces regarding information retrieval. Much food
    > for thought here.
    >
    > From:Bill Bearden
    > Speaking of navigating the WWW...The folks that brought you
    > www.thebrain.com have recently brought up a new site:
    > www.webbrain.com. I fooled around with it the other day.One
    > thing I like: it gives you links before you get to the end
    > of the tree. It doesn't do this at every level, but it does
    > it fairly often. For instance, you may not have to navigate
    > all the way through WebBrain->Games->Board
    > Games->Alphabetical Listing->C->Chess to find a link that
    > might give you information on the history of chess. A
    > "history of games" site appears in the bottom half of the
    > screen at the Games level. And this link points to a site
    > that does contain a brief but interesting history of
    > chess.Another thing I like is that it gives you a little
    > access to the level from which you came. It appears that it
    > caches the categories from the previous level as you can
    > scroll through a list of them. It is a graphical 2.5D
    > (almost 3D) navigation system.What I would like to see is
    > more functionality on the "mouse over". I think it should
    > display a description of the category or allow a quick peek
    > at the level below.
    >
    >
    > I don't know about WebNav but there's
    > another Java applet that does exist. It
    > is an on-going IBM project called
    > Mappucino:
    > http://www.ibm.com/java/mapuccino/index.html.
    > Another similar product (commercial this
    > time) is Inxight SiteLens:
    > http://www.inxight.com. Both of them
    > parse a site and display the site's
    > organization as a graphical map that
    > users can navigate through. Gil
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