RE: SIMILE Research Drivers

[Andrew Fitzhugh]
... it may just seem quaint that we were once so enamored of clicking on
hyperlinks in HTML documents ...

[wmj]
A *crude model* would be: selecting named-pages/screens one at a time.

[Andrew Fitzhugh]
... in my own work the vision of future information networks is more
decentralized than today's web.

[wmj]
How your "vision" is different from *crude model*?

Regards
WMJ  

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Subject: RE: SIMILE Research Drivers


John writes:
> 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"

Decentralized P2P-ish clients for instant messaging, file sharing,
[meta]data sharing, etc. are not well supported by the traditional web
browser.  I can't speak for Haystack, but in my own work the vision of
future information networks is more decentralized than today's web.
Browsers may evolve to support this shift, but then again a decade from
now
it may just seem quaint that we were once so enamored of clicking on
hyperlinks in HTML documents....

-- Andy