Great find, Kevin. I was reading Walenskys multivalent papers several
moons back, thinking there was something to that idea that we need to
understand. Now, we can. I think this browser fits well into Mary
Keeler's PORT ideas as well.
Couple Multivalent with http://www.www.e-smiles.org.com/ (SMIL and SVG)
and you are really headed somewhere!
Cheers
Jack
At 02:03 PM 11/6/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Forgive me for having been lurking, just trying to keep the signal-to-noise
>ratio high.
>
>Yesterday, though, I went to hear Robert Wilensky talk about the UC Berkeley
>Digital Library project, and thought you'd all like to know about their
>"Multivalent browser". It's an open source Java browser which supports
>annotations uniformly across document formats, including PDF, HTML
>framesets, and even scanned document images. Perhaps more importantly, it's
>designed to facilitate implementation of additional "behaviors" easily in a
>document format-independent way. I haven't had a chance to play with it much
>yet myself, but the demo was very impressive. The home page is
>[http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/].
>--
>Kevin Keck
>keck@kecklabs.com
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