WWW 6 Trip Report Report on the Sixth International WWW Conference held in Santa Clara on April 7-11, 1997 Brian Kelly UK Web Focus [email protected] http://www.ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN University of Bath BA2 7AY 1 UK Web Focus UK Web Focus is: • A JISC funded initiative • Based at UKOLN, University of Bath • Involved in various WWW activities: – Technology watch – Information dissemination throughout UK HE community – Coordination of WWW activities – Represents JISC on W3C Brian Kelly appointed as UK Web Focus on 1st November 1996 2 About WWW 6 WWW 6: • Held at the Santa Clara Convention Centre • Workshops and tutorial sessions on Monday 7th April • Technical papers from 8-10th April • Developer's Day and History Day on 11th April • Various other BOFs and meeting (including Web Accessibility Initiative day 3 Before the Conference • Conference details including online booking available on Web- http://ice.www6conf.org/ http://www6conf.org/ • Online conference (ICE) available for delegates before, during and after conference • Conference proceedings available online http://proceedings .www6conf.org/ 4 ICE ICE (Interactive Conference Environment): • A new facility for WWW conferences • Provided a home page and messaging facilities for delegates • Providing online registration for conference events Usefulness: • General conferences not widely used (eg. Web site design) but specific conferences were (travel tips, social events) • Usability could be improved 5 WAI Day Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) day: • Held on Sunday 6th April • About 80 participants • Morning consisted of presentations including: – US Government support for Initiative (Thomas Kalil, White House) and National Science Foundation involvement – Details of the W3C WAI - has been agreed by W3C members (Jim Miller, W3C) – Other presentations from Kate Seelman (NIDRR), Mike Pacielli (YRIF), Tim Berners-Le (W3C), Peter Bosh (RNIB), Gregg Vanderheiden (Trace Research), Michael Sfyrakis (ICS-Forth) and Murray Maloney (SoftQuad) 6 "Opening Windows or Closing Doors" Peter Bosher (RNIB, UK) spoke about the tremendous benefits of IT for the visually impaired, but also the pitfalls that blind people face. e.g. • Times job vacancies page is usable with Lynx and speech browsers • London Broadcasting Company pages are poor http://www.lbc.co.uk/ 7 Want "cool with content" "Opening Windows or Closing Doors" (2) Other comments Peter made: • Poorly designed navigation (when you follow several links, and then get back to where you started) is a particular problem for the blind who don't have the visual clues that the sighted have • When navigating the Hotwired site his browser said "link link link link image image image without caption" • Tables are difficult to process by speech browsers • Painstakingly competing a form and then getting an error message because the form was browser specific is annoying 8 WAI - Afternoon Session In the afternoon presentations were given from speakers from Sun and Microsoft. T.V. Raman (Adobe) spoke about the benefits of "smart documents" - in which the paper document is just one form of rendering. He spoke about the audio cascading style sheet proposal. Following a panel session the day concluded with breakout sessions on: 9 • Technology issues • Development of Guidelines • Educational Issues Further Information Further information on the Web Accessibility Initiative, and on general accessibility resources is available at: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Disabilities/ http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/ Other/design.html http://www.igs.net/~starling/acces.htm http://trace.wisc.edu/ http://access.adobe.com/ http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/ 10 Web Collections Workshop Half day workshops on web collections: • Defining relationships between groups of related documents • Useful for: – printing – off-line browsing – indexing • Presentations on: – Protocols (Web Collections, MCF, Dublin Core) – Applications (HotSauce, WebCutter, WebMapper) 11 Day 0 - 9 am Conclusions The Web Site Mapping workshop agreed: 12 • Split protocol into three: – Metadata Model – File Format Syntax – Metadata Manipulation Language • Further discussions needed on: – Whether a new query language is needed (e.g. SQL, HyTime Query Language) – Whether we need a metadata query language or a general document query language – A list of common site mapping operations, to help define an API • XML is likely to be the preferred syntax XML Tutorial XML: • • • • • • Extensible markup language An SGML-lite designed for the Internet Developed by the SGML community Tools being developed by SGML tool vendors Microsoft involvement Two XML draft specs: English – XML French – XML-link A richer form of linking • Stricter than HTML (to reduce client processing): – Attribute quoting <IMG SRC="logo.gif"> – End tags needed <P>A paragraph</P> 13 Day 0 - 2 pm Opening Speeches Introduction from Gerhard Casper, President of Stanford University • Delegates from forty countries attended WWW 6, 50% academic and 50% commercial. • Overall attendance not known at start of conference. Believed to be about 1,800 - this was down on expectations, perhaps due to the JavaOne (8,000) and Microsoft Hardware Developers conference (15,000) held in San Francisco the previous week. 14 Day 1 - 9 am Opening Speeches Dr Mae Jemison • Mae Jemison, who was an astronaut on Endeavour, spoke on the social responsibilities of technologists Thomas Kalil • Thomas Kalil, Director of the National Economic Council, spoke on US government initiatives to: – Connect people with disabiliities to Web – Connect every student to Web (see http://netday.org/) – Connect people in Africa to Web • He repeated comments he made in the WAI day 15 Day 1 - 9 am "Beyond HTML" The technical session on "Beyond HTML" 16 • Took place at 11 am on Tuesday, 8th April • Papers presented on: – "Bookmarking Service for Organizing and Sharing URLs" by Richard M. Keller et al – "Extending HTML in a Principled Way with Displets" by Fabio Vitali et al – "Index-Based Hyperlinks" by John H. Hartman, Todd A. Proebsting, Rajesh Sundaram – "Metadata Mediation : Representation and Protocol" by Tsuyoshi Sakata, Hiroyuki Tada, Tomohisa Ohtake Day 1 - 11am Bookmarking Service for Organizing and Sharing URLs This paper outlined limitations in bookmarking (monolithic structure, problems in sharing URLs, ranking long lists and navigation). WebTagger uses a proxy service which adds buttons at top of pages. These can be use to provide a richer bookmaking service. See http://www6.nttlabs.com/ HyperNews/get/PAPER189.html 17 Day 1 - 11am Extending HTML in a Principled Way with Displets This paper describes a Java solution to adding new tags to HTML. <TAG NAME=CHART .. SRC=chart.class>…</TAG> <CHART TYPE=BAR> <TABLE> <TH> JAN/<TR><TH>125… </TABLE> </CHART> HTML source 18 Jan Jan Smith 125 Green 137 Apr Apr 257 140 Jul Oct Jul 327 110 Oct 250 160 HTML output Day 1 - 11am Extending HTML in a Principled Way with Displets Other extensions: Multi-way links Graphs Reference information Tutorial OK For further information Cancel Issues: How does this fit in with XML? How does this fit in with the HTML Math work, which proposes using Java to display Maths output? Further Information: 19 http://proceedings.www6conf.org/ HyperNews/get/PAPER155.html http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/ ~chchiu/displets.html Day 1 - 11am Index-Based Hyperlinks Problem: • Web pages have too many links for authors to manage • Web pages have too few links for readers (e.g. a language student may want every word to be a link - an author would not want to maintain such a document) • Only one URL per link allows • The URL name provides little meaning • Link can only be created by the author 20 Day 1 - 11am Index-Based Hyperlinks Possible solutions include: • Automatic generation of links (can be inaccurate) • Use Javascript (heavy weight) In Index-based Hyperlinks: • Indices associate attributes with phrases • Browsers can implement the linking policy (i.e. link on first occurrence of phrase) • Indexes are separate from document • Prototype in HotJava 21 Day 1 - 11am Index-Based Hyperlinks Further Information http://www6.nttlabs.com/ HyperNews/get/PAPER248.html http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/ 22 Day 1 - 11am "Leading the Evolution of HTML" W3C Session This W3C session: • Took place at 2 pm on Tuesday, 8th April • Talks by Dave Raggett, Arnaud LeHors and Rob Miner • Covered: HTML developments Metadata XML Maths • Technical discussion on HTML takes place on www-html list. • Feedback should be sent to [email protected] 23 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session HTML Developments Cougar: • Code name for next version of HTML • Needed as "forces driving evolution of HTML are threatening media independence" • First draft available summer 97 • Some parts already released: WD-htmllink WD-script WD-frames WD-forms WD-object WD-entities WD-fileupload • See http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/ MarkUp/Cougar/ 24 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session WD-htmllink WD-htmllink • Hypertext links in HTML. • Defines link relationships (e.g. <LINK REL=Next> could be used to facilitate printing in a single document split into several files) • Related to Style Sheet work <LINK REL=Stylesheet MEDIA=print HREF=ukoln-print.css> • Define TITLE attribute for hints for accessibility e.g. <A HREF="welcome.html" TITLE="The Welcome page for ACME Ltd">text</A> In this example a browser could display the text in, say, a pop-up window. 25 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session WD-htmllink WD-htmllink (continued) • Defines uses of META tag (e.g. for use with PICS) • Define language(s) for documents • Define pages which can be indexed by robots <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> prohibits robots from indexing and following links 26 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session WD-style WD-style • HTML and Style Sheets • Defines relationships between HTML document and stylesheet • Single style sheet can be defined by: <LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="corporate.css"> • Cascading style sheets can be defined by: <LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="corporate.css"> <LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="techreport.css"> • Can define alternate style sheets for media types: <LINK REL=stylesheet MEDIA=screen …> • MEDIA types can include Print, Screen, Aural, Braille,... 27 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session WD-script WD-script • Client-side Scripting and HTML • Defines mechanism for embedding scripting languages in HTML: <SCRIPT type="text/javascript"> document.write ("<EM>This will work</EM>") </SCRIPT> • <SCRIPT SRC="url"> used for external scripts • Default script language can be defined: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Script-Type" CONTENT="text/tcl"> 28 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session WD-script WD-script (continued) • Self-modifying documents and event handlers can be written <SCRIPT TYPE="text/vbscript"> Sub edit1_changed() If edit1.value = "abc" Then button1.enabled = True Else button1.enabled = False End If End Sub </SCRIPT> • Events include onLoad, onClick, MouseOver, onSelect, ... 29 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session WD-frames WD-frames • Defines existing usage of FRAME tag • Includes IFRAME proposal for inclusion of frames inline in body of HTML documents (FRAME tag replaces BODY tag): <BODY> <P>This document contains an inline frame <IFRAME src="foo.html" width=400 height=500> that unfortunately your user agent doesn't support. Alternatively you can get the related document <A href="foo.html">here </A>.</IFRAME> That's all folks! </BODY> 30 • Initial release of FRAMES caused problems, and there are still accessibility concerns Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session Dynamic HTML • Based on work of the Document Object Model (DOM) working group • Provides an API (applications programming interface) for HTML page structure and style • Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 implements many features of Dynamic HTML 31 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session XML XML: • Is a clean subset of SGML • It is felt that XML and HTML will coexist for some time • Further information on XML is given elsewhere in this presentation 32 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session IETF and ISO and HTML IETF are working on various aspects associated with HTML • MHTML (email encapsulation of HTML) • WEBDAV (The Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning working group) ISO • The ISO/JTC1/SC18 work on HTML 3.2 33 Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session HTML Math The HTML Math spec: • • • • 34 Is due out in May 97 Core standard covering presentation and markup Will contain 20 presentation tags with 40 attributes Will contain 50 content tags (roughly equivalent to functions on scientific calculator) • Initially will be implemented using embedded elements (ActiveX, Java) enabling 3rd parties to develop the rendering tools (won't need to wait for Netscape or Microsoft) • Software will be available in June 97 • Full implementation requires better browser APIs (e.g. DOM) Day 1 - 2pm W3C Session CSS The CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheet) spec: • • • • Replaces all HTML extensions Can replace most uses of tables Provides floating text elements Provides control over background History: Sept 94 - Initial CSS proposal June 96 - MS IE 3 released supporting CSS Dec 96 - CSS1 draft finished CSS logo available for pages using style sheets (see http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/CSS/ Buttons/Menu/ 35 Day 1 - 2.45pm W3C Session CSS Q How closely matched are the CSS and XML? A Q They are a good match Features such as side bars (e.g. <P CLASS=side>) are likely to be widely used. Should such attributes be registered? It's likely that a set of standard style sheet definitions will be released, and they'll be widely used Will CSS held to reduce network bandwidth? Yes, see http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/ NL-PerfNote.html A Q A 36 Q A What about headers and footers? In next release Day 1 - 2.45pm W3C Session CSS - The Next Wave In next version of CSS: • Multiple media (using @media) • Improved printing support (headers, footers, margins, etc.) • Better control over positioning (e.g. out-of-flow elements, navigational bars, layering) • Better font control (mixed fonts - e.g. helvetica and cyrillic for, say, language dictionaries) • Aural cascading style sheets (as well as for visually impaired also for in car-use, industrial and medical systems, entertainment, illiterate): 37 – <STRONG> rendered as loud voice, pause-before – Left column in table spoken in left speaker Day 1 - 2.45pm "Multidimensional Web Search" The technical session on "Multidimensional Web Search" • Took place at 4 pm on Tuesday, 8th April • Papers presented on: – "Towards a Multimedia World-Wide Web Information Retrieval Engine" by Sougata Mukherjea et al – "Dynamic Reference Sifting: A Case Study in the Homepage Domain" by Jonathan Shakes et al – "ParaSite: Mining Structural Information on the Web" by Ellen Spertus 38 Day 1 - 4 pm Towards a Multimedia World-Wide Web Information Retrieval Engine (1) Paper that integrates searching for text with searching for images. • Search for "baseball player" • Select one of the images retrieved, and search for others similar to this one • Give schematic drawing (as shown) • Provide 3D visualisation of search results using VRML 39 Find an image that looks like this will find Mickey Mouse from the Disney Web site Day 1 - 4 pm Towards a Multimedia World-Wide Web Information Retrieval Engine (2) The software is called AMORE. Prototype available at http://www.ccrl. neclab.com/amore/ See http://www6.nttlabs. com/HyperNews/ get/PAPER3.html 40 Day 1 - 4 pm Dynamic Reference Sifting: A Case Study Described Ahoy! - a Web application used for finding personal home pages based on recognition of likely hits from directory naming conventions. See http://www6.nttlabs.com/ HyperNews/get/PAPER39.html 41 http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/ahoy Day 1 - 4 pm Parasite: Mining Structural Information on the Web Based on heuristic assumptions including: Hypertext Linking • A linked page is likely to be on the same topic as the original page (esp. for Yahoo type resources) Directory Structure • A URL containing a directory below a personal home page (PHP) is likely to be authored by the person identified in the PHP Page Structure • Links "near" each other on a page are likely to have similar topics 42 Day 1 - 4 pm Parasite: Mining Structural Information on the Web Used these assumptions to propose applications for finding: • moved pages • related pages • people Comments • Brute strength approach • This and preceding paper (on Ahoy!) show importance of directory naming conventions (directory names provide metadata - what can we guess from the URL www.cs.acme.edu/staff/jsmith) 43 Day 1 - 4 pm Plenary Session All Authored Works Online: A Global Infrastructure for Universal Access to Information Raj Reddy, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon spoke on the Universal Library project - when "All Authored Works of the Human Race will be available to anyone in the world instantaneously". His talk is available at http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/rr/aaw/aaw.html Accessibility of Everything Michael Dertouzos ... 44 Day 2 - 9 am MBONE Link With Germany Dave Ingham (Computer Science, Newcastle University) was asked to deliver his paper (on Supporting Highly Manageable Web Services) to the Conference in High Energy Physics using the MBONE 45 Day 2 - 10.30 am Good Web Design Good Web Design Panel Session • A very popular session on Web design • Panelists included Jakob Neilson (Sun), David Seigel (a leading web designer and author of the 1 bit clear GIF used to provide spacing), Cathy Gill (HTML Writer's Guild) and others • Strong disagreements between the design community (David Seigel) and the structuralist community (Jakon Neilson) • I attended the start and end of this session 46 Day 2 - 2 pm Good Web Design What is Good Design? 47 • No frames - Jakob Neilson's response (see his paper on 10 top mistakes in web design) • The design must be related to a user's tasks • A well-designed site downloads quickly • A good design doesn't break browsers • No gratuitous backgrounds or animation • Should be internally consistent • Should be externally consistent in use of navigation (Jakob Neilson's comments on need for standard navigational aids such as not changing colours of hypertext links) • Variety in navigational aids (David Siegel's Day 2 - 2 pm response) Good Web Design Other Comments • "Designers shouldn't be used as shields in the browser wars" • Web sites need (automated) feedback mechanisms • There aren't enough good web designers, so we need guidelines • We need good example of web design (and commentary on the design) • See Highfive (David Seigel) - http://www.highfive.com/ • See http://eunisis.com/resources/?? 48 • See ACM/Interactions (May/June 97) for a critique of Web design Day 2 - 2 pm Bad Web Design? There was much disagreement over the Seigel "hack" illustrated 49 image4.gif • Image on the next page stored in a 1 pixel by 1 pixel • The image is downloaded <IMG SRC=image5.gif while main image is being height=1 width=1> examined • Moving to the next image it appears to load quickly • "Neat trick" - David Seigel • "Hack", "future maintenance problems" "no semantics" Site Mapping and Syntactic Analysis The technical session on "Site Mapping and Syntactic Analysis" • Took place at 2 pm on Wednesday, 9th April • Papers presented on: – "Finding Salient Features for Personal Web Page Categories" by Marilyn R. Wulfekuhler, William F. Punch – "Syntactic Clustering of the Web" by Andrei Z. Broder et al – "Analysis and Design of Web-based Information Systems" by Takahashi and Liang 50 Day 2 - 2 pm Syntactic Clustering of the Web 51 Award winning paper Using a clustering algorithm to find "similar" documents Can be used to: • In response to a 404 not found message, find similar versions of a resource • Observe how resources change over time (find new and out-of -date versions) • Find plagiarisms Results Tested on 30,000,000 documents in Alta Vista 60% of documents are unique Most clusters of similar documents are small Day 2 - 2 pm Microsoft IE 4.0 Presentation in the Industrial Presentations track on Internet Explorer's implementation of Dynamic HTML 52 HTML is limited: • Animation using animated GIFs is limited • Can't position or layer elements • The web is slow - interaction with server needed Dynamic HTML: • Based on emerging W3C proposals • Covers: – Dynamic styles and dynamic contents – CSS positioning - Data binding • See http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/ prog/aplatfrm/dynhtml-f.htm Day 2 - 4 pm Microsoft IE 4.0 Dynamic HTML • Positioning control (in X, Y and Z planes) • Position can be changed at run time (e.g. on mouseOver event) 53 Day 2 - 4 pm Microsoft IE 4.0 Dynamic Style Sheets CSS properties can be changed at run time: <H1 onMouseOver {color: red;} onMouseOut {color: yellow;}> A more elegant way is to store the Javascript code in the document HEAD (or externally) CSS Positioning Elements can be positioned absolutely or relative to each other <IMG SRC="smiley.gif" : top: 25% ; zindex=1> <DIV zindex =2>Text on top of image</DIV> 54 Text on top of image Day 2 - 4 pm Microsoft IE 4.0 Dynamic Content The Document Object Model (DOM) can be used to change the content at runtime: function change() "new header" ... <H1 id=foo onclick=change()>Old Header</H1> For example a table of contents could be built dynamically 55 Day 2 - 4 pm Microsoft IE 4.0 Data Binding Currently data binding (merged data from database with HTML code) is done on the server Data binding proposal enables it to be done on the client so that, for example, the output from a search engine can be resorted on the client) 56 http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ ie40/browser/bestweb/ Day 2 - 4 pm Microsoft IE 4.0 Dynamic HTML Multimedia Effects 57 Uses IE4 control to provide multimedia effects Removes need for animated GIF Variety of effects available: • Transitions, filters, structured graphics, sequencing • sprite control (scripted animated GIFs) • Example - e rotating in 3D How will Powerpoint be marketed if this is possible in HTML? Day 2 - 4 pm Microsoft IE 4.0 Document Object Model (DOM) • DOM enables every HTML element to be processed as an object (i.e. DOM is an API for accessing HTML elements) • DOM is not a set of tags or a new language (it is language independent) 58 Day 2 - 4 pm Microsoft IE 4.0 Standards • IE 4.0 conforms to HTML 3.2 and CSS1 • Implements new W3C drafts (e.g. DOM, forms) • Javascript is being standardised by ECMA Support for legacy browsers? • Don't use new features • New features degrade gracefully • New features won't work (e.g. Tetris example 10K HTML file, which used no ActiveX controls) Security 59 • Based on domains (pages from one domain can't read pages from other domains) Day 2 - 4 pm Plenary Session Yuri Rubinsky Memorial WWW Award • Murray Mahloney presented the award to Gregg Vanderheiden for his involvement with disability work • Apple and Microsoft have been strongly influenced by the work of the TRACE centre The Social Web • Howard Rheingold, author of Virtual Communities and execuitve editor of Hot Wired spoke about the collaborative Web • "Convergence sucks!" The Web shouldn't be like the TV, it should be like the phone. • See Electric Minds at http://www.minds.com/ 60 Day 3 - 9 am Plenary Session MBONE Session With Hypertext 97 A live panel discussion using video link Robert Cailliau (CERN), Terry Winograd (Stanford), Ora Goldstein (HP) and Howard Rheingold from WWW 6 conference Wendy Hall (Southanpton Univ), ??? Electronic Telegraph, Cathy Marshall (Xerox) and Ted Nelson from Hypertext 97 conference 61 Day 3 - 9 am Plenary Session Panelists discussed question "Why both with research? Let's leave the web to the marketplace" Robert Cailliau - "The original NeXT browser provided collaborative authoring. This still hasn't been implemented by commercial browsers. As will be seen a the History Day there have been many research prototypes which haven't yet been implemented commercially. The question should be 'Can the commercial world keep up with the research community?' The commercial world has brought us frames, but the worthy research prototypes from 1990 have been lost" 62 Plenary Session 63 ??, Electronic Telegraph: Commercial products can't be expected to keep up with research developments. Carry on researching. Terry Vinograd: Researchers are carrying out valuable exploratory design work - design something, make it available and see if it flies. Howard Rheingold: There is a need to legitimise social science research Ted Nelson: The hypertext community's view of the Web is "Where did we go wrong!" The Web community is failing to look at the history of hypertext, standardisation (cf. the browser wars), etc. We need a stable reusable Web which facilitates long term use. Automatic Interface Generation The technical session on "Automatic Interface Generation" • Took place at 4 pm on Thursday, 10th April • Papers presented on: – "Transforming Command-Line Driven Systems to Web Applications" by Phanouriou and Abrams – "Responsive Interaction for a Large Web Application The Meteor Shower Architecture in the WebWriter II Editor" by Crespo et al – "The Message Is the Medium" by Seligmann et al – "Seamless Integration of Interactive Forms into the Web" by Girgensohn and Lee 64 Day 3 - 2 pm Transforming Command-Line Driven Systems to Web Applications This paper described work which used Java to provide access to a legacy command line application (a monolithic Fortran 77 program) on the Web: • Input to application via Java form • Output in Java applet window • Commercial product available soon 65 Day 3 - 2 pm Responsive Interaction for a Large Web Application The Meteor Shower Architecture in the WebWriter II Editor An HTML authoring tool with server and client side processing. Makes use of frames. Uses <BLINK> to define flashing cursor 66 http://www6.nttlabs.com/ HyperNews/get/PAPER86.html Day 3 - 2 pm The Message Is the Medium This paper described a number of approaches to using visual imagery in Web interfaces. The user interfaces can be accessed in the Metaphorium which is available at http://www.multimedia. bell-labs.com/ Metaphorium/ 67 Seamless Integration of Interactive Forms into the Web This paper described limitations of existing forms on the Web and described how Dynamic Forms would overcome these limitations. Dynamic Forms is based on Java. But what about W3C work on HTML (new DOM and Forms specs)? 68 http://www6.nttlabs.com/ HyperNews/get/PAPER83.html Strategies for Resource Location The technical session on "Strategies for Resource Location" • Took place at 4 pm on Thursday, 10th April • Papers presented on: – "SiteHelper: A Localized Agent that Helps Incremental Exploration of the World Wide Web" by Ngu and Wu – "WebQuery: Searching and Visualizing the Web through Connectivity" by Carrière and Kazman – "WebCutter: A System for Dynamic and Tailorable Site Mapping" by Maarek et al 69 Day 3 - 2 pm WebQuery Paper on various visualisation techniques for searching. Based on structural information to find "hot spots" 70 http://www6.nttlabs.com/HyperNews/ get/PAPER96.html Day 3 - 2 pm WebCutter: A System for Dynamic and Tailorable Site Mapping Paper on IBM/Lotus product for website visualisation • Implemented in Java • Map generated on the fly • Map can be edited by end user (to define user's view of web site) http://www6.nttlabs.com/HyperNews/ get/PAPER40.html 71 Day 3 - 2 pm Closing Session • John Gage, Sun, gave a talk on Java • Gregg Vanderheiden spoke on the importance of accessibility issues • Bob Metcalfe gave an entertaining speech. Two years ago he predicted the collapse of the Internet. Conceding that it hadn’t collapsed, he literally ate his words. 72 Day 3 - 2 pm Closing Session Robert Cailliau awarded the prizes 73 Best Tutorial Steve Lewontin - Doing things With The Web: Where Application Execute Best Paper Andrei Brider et al - Syntactic Clustering of the Web Runner-up Jonathon Shakes et al - Dynamic Reference Sifting: A Case Study in Homepage Domain Day 3 - 2 pm Developer's Day Opening Opened with wakeup call by Ted Nelson (video link) "Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it" - theme of Ted's talk (and the History Day). He concluded by saying: "my past is your future" Tim Berners-Lee then reviewed developments of the Web and outlined the road ahead. 74 Day 4 - 9 am Developer's Day - HTTP Transparent Content Negotiation (TCN) • IETF draft • Enables: – Deployment of new data formats and tags – Tailoring of content for new platforms – Internationalisation • See ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts /draft-ietf-http-negotiation-01.txt • TCN spec server sends list of variants: <IMG SRC="logo"> HTML source {logo.gif {logo.png type image.png} type image.png} Variant list sent by server 75 Day 4 - 9 am Developer's Day - HTTP Feature Negotiation • IETF draft • Part of TCN, addressing extensibility • No more "Click here from frames, here for tables" buttons • Universal agreement on new features not needed • See ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internetdrafts/draft-ietf-http-featurereg-00.txt 76 Day 4 - 9 am Developer's Day - XML • Report on XML workshop given by Eve Maher. • Discussed "Where to from here?" 77 Day 4 - 2 pm WWW 6 - The Good Points Some of the good things about WWW 6 were: • Use of the Web to support the conference (online registration, conferencing system, proceedings, etc.) • High profile for accessibility issues • W3C sessions on web protocol developments • Meeting old and new faces 78 WWW 6 - The Bad Points Some of the failings of WWW 6 were: • Local organisation: – Catering (lack of coffee in afternoon, lunches) – Failure to notify session chairs before conference – Technical support in sessions (e.g. sound quality) – Evaluation form – Lack of list of delegates • Numbers of participants was down on last year • Lack of standardisation of presentations (compared with WWW5) • Presentations not being made available on WWW 79 Conclusions • Conferencing system such as ICE should be provided for future WWW conferences • Accessibility is important 80
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