- From: <ping@lfw.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@w3.org>
- cc: www-annotation@w3.org
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Daniel LaLiberte wrote: > > I don't know about the others (I haven't been keeping up) but HyperNews > allows you to reference an arbitrary public website which is used as the > "base article" for a forum. As an example, see: > http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/get/w3c.html. Very interesting! Thanks, i didn't know HyperNews could do that. > Instead, I > had hoped people would install their own copies of HyperNews, and that > has worked reasonably well. Most people just want the forum features > regardless what is at the top of the forum. Indeed. As a threaded discussion mechanism, HyperNews excels, and CritLink pretty much sucks. (I suspect CritLink would suck much less if i just added an article index view, which i don't think would be too hard.) > HyperNews does that, but it is easy if you don't have to embed > annotations. Another optimization (supported by HyperNews) is to make > use of a cache of the pages being annotated. Yup. You are right. When HyperNews operates on a remote page this way, it is indeed a mediator. -- ?!ng
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