Title :
Transducers and associates: circumventing limitations of the World Wide Web
Author :
Meeks, W. Scott ; Brooks, Charles ; Mazer, Murray S.
Author_Institution :
Open Software Found. Res. Inst., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
There are limitations in the usability of the World Wide Web. One approach to circumventing these limitations involves inserting high-level transducers in the HTTP request/response stream. A second approach involves building more independent programs, called browsing associates. We have built example services and toolkits for both
Keywords :
Internet; hypermedia; information retrieval; network servers; online front-ends; software tools; HTTP request/response stream; World Wide Web; browsing associates; high-level transducers; independent programs; services; toolkits; History; Monitoring; Navigation; Telephony; Transducers; Uniform resource locators; Usability; Web server; Web sites; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Applications in Communications, 1996. Proceedings., First Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7585-3
DOI :
10.1109/ETACOM.1996.502488
