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- [Tim & Tom -- sorry for the duplication, I left out a comma
- in the cc: list in the previous message]
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- Timbl:
- > Great idea, LOTS of applications. Traversing a tree to a given depth
- > makes a book. Tony's WWWVeronica is a great idea -- particularly as
- > it can pick up WAIS indexes and Gopher and telent sites all together
- > and make a megaIndex of the whole scene!
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- I agree that the map produced by traversing all of WWW would be
- QUITE large and that it would be more efficiently searched as
- an Index (WWWVeronica), if the output of the Robot were Text.
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- A new twist: (I am still trying to catch up on all the features &
- functionality of WWW, so if WWW already does this, please tell me)
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- Is it possible for a user of WWW to see, graphically, a map of the
- Web? If the client software had a map to work with, instead of a
- book, and the user could point at a spot on the map and select it,
- then I think it would be a lot easier to navigate.
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- There could be a "short-range" scan which would show a close-up view
- of the web links all around the current node, upto around 3 or 4
- levels.
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- There could be a "long-range" scan which would show a global
- view of the Web, leaving out the details of the local links.
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- This requires an extension beyond hypertext into hypermedia, of
- course.
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- Anyway, would hyper-graphical representations of the Web be useful?
- If it is worthwhile, is it doable?
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- --lam
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- Linda A Murphy Internet: murphy@dccs.upenn.edu
- Network Engineering Data Communications and Computing Services
- University of Pennsylvania (215) 898-9534
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