Re: SIMILE Research Drivers

   Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:12:17 -0700
   From: Kevin Smathers <ks@micky.hpl.hp.com>
   Cc: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
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   On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:54:54PM -0400, John S. Erickson wrote:
   > 
   > Kevin asks:
   > > So the question I am left with is: why do you think
   > > that Simile clients should not be limited to web browsers?
   > 
   > Well, for one thing, the Haystack client is not technically a "web browser"
   > 

   I agree of course.  

   Still this is the first suggestion I've seen that the Haystack
   client would be used with Simile.  My impression was rather that
   the Haystack UI would be ported, minus the client, using a Web UI
   interface.

It's a bit questionable where the haystack UI ends and the client
begins.  Certainly the maximum power of haystack is achieved by the
full system.  Arguably, there is some value to using some of the
haystack "back end" (learning agents, etc) to record and adapt to user
interactions directed through a web browser.    But a web browser is
really quite a limited interface; we'll get a lot more power using the
full haystack UI.

Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2003 01:01:02 UTC