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- Marc,
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- You ask a good question. Currently, all we do with existing WWW software is as
- you describe: you need write access to annote it. See
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- www http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/DesignIssues/LinkToLiving.html
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- www http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/DesignIssues/Multiuser.html
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- for discussions in this area. We would like to include facilities in the
- new protocol to allow front-end update.
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- One observation I have made is that many nodes are basically lists, and the
- option to add a link to the list could be a simple and safer operation than
- allowing full write acess.
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- The function would be annotate(docid1, docid2) which would, in the simplest
- hypertext case, add a bit of text to the end of doc1 consisting of the title
- of doc2, linked to doc2 itself. This function would give allow a "reply"
- feature when used on a mail message. For a newsgroup, it would equate to
- "post". obviously it would be up to a server how it would impelement it (ity
- could maintain alphabestical order for example, it could store the links in a
- separate databse, it could formatthem anyway) -- the requirement would only be
- that at the end, a link from doc1 to doc2 existed.
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- I'd be interested in CSCW people getting involved with the web. Certain servers
- could for example mention their ability to support concurrent editing of
- documents for clients which support that.
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- Tim
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