Designing Dexter-Based Hypermedia Services for the World Wide Web

This paper discusses how to augment the WWW with a Dexter-based hypermedia service that provides anchors, links and composites as objects stored external to the Web pages. The hypermedia objects are stored in an objectoriented database that is accessible on the Web via an ordinary URL. The Dexter-based hypermedia service is based on the Devise Hypermedia framework. Three client solutions are described and discussed, one that is platform independent based on Netscape Navigator 3.0, utilizing Java, Javascript, and LiveConnect, and two that are platform dependent, one utilizing Netscape plug-ins, and another using Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, utilizing mainly ActiveX. The server part is developed as a specialization of the Devise Hypermedia framework accessible through CGI scripts. Thus the system provides the full power of Dexter-based hypermedia to arbitrary Web pages on the Internet. This includes the ability for multiple users to create links from parts of HTML Web pages they do ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: HT
• Authors: Kaj Grønbæk, Niels Olof Bouvin, Lennert Sloth
• Keywords: Dexter-based Hypermedia, Dexter-based Hypermedia Service, HT 1997, Hypermedia, Internet Technology