On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:05:21AM -0400, David R. Karger wrote: > 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. Can you expand on this a bit? What is the power of Haystack that would have no analogue if mapped to a browser interface? Is that power something that we want users to have? If it is then is it something that could be mapped through a separate transaction with the application server rather than making it a part of the primary interface? What is it that you are worried that the system won't be able to do if the client is a browser? -- ======================================================== Kevin Smathers kevin.smathers@hp.com Hewlett-Packard kevin@ank.com Palo Alto Research Lab 1501 Page Mill Rd. 650-857-4477 work M/S 1135 650-852-8186 fax Palo Alto, CA 94304 510-247-1031 home ======================================================== use "Standard::Disclaimer"; carp("This message was printed on 100% recycled bits.");Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:46:04 EDT
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