Group:
information retrieval
Group:
user interface for hypertext
Topic:
browsing with a user interface
Topic:
communication protocols
Topic:
external search and sort
Topic:
full-text indexing
Topic:
history list in hypertext
Topic:
hypertext as a global database
Topic:
hypertext browser
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Internet
Topic:
open systems
Topic:
reliable communication
Topic:
searching the Web
Topic:
security leaks and weaknesses
Topic:
shared information for collaborative work
Topic:
text markup and structured text
Topic:
using an address as a name
Topic:
XML data type
Topic:
XML schemas
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Summary
The Web is a successful implementation of hypertext. The Web communication standards, HTTP and URL/URI combined with the Web's presentation standards, HTML and CSS, have allowed arbitrary sources to interconnect without worrying about platform or binary formats. It has continued with exponential growth of the Internet, allowing the Web to reach a world-wide audience. (cbb 4/07)
Subtopic: access to information 
| Quote: people understand graphs of tree-like documents (HTML) connected by links (URL) [»boswA10_2005]
| | Quote: the Web is an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system [»fielRT5_2002]
| | Quote: the Web is a shared information space; everyone stores and structure their own information; easily referenced from anywhere; easy to use by everyone [»fielRT5_2002]
| | Quote: use a built-in web server for system status, logs, and debugging [»huntA_2000]
| | Quote: for access to large databases, Web provides simple queries of user-entered data with results rendered as hypermedia [»fielRT5_2002]
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Subtopic: protocols
| Quote: relaxed, extensible text formats and protocols work better than efficient binary ones; easily shared and understood [»boswA10_2005]
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Subtopic: browser
| Quote: with the World-Wide Web, the user interface is the same for all servers, protocols, and objects [»bernT8_1994]
| | Quote: top-level tasks for web browsing: Use Information, Go To, Locate, Provide Information, Configure, and React [»byrnMD5_1999]
| | Quote: web browser tasks in order: Use Information, Locate, Goto (and wait) [»byrnMD5_1999]
| | Quote: web navigation by depth-first traversal; i.e., hub-and-spoke [»newfD11_1998]
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Subtopic: URL
| Quote: with the World-Wide Web, all items have a reference for retrieving the item
| | Quote: clicking an anchor in a World-Wide Web browser retrieves the desired object; continue navigation if the object is hypertext [»bernT8_1994]
| | Quote: WebMark is a public database of (barcode, URL) pairs for retrieving web pages with a barcode scanner
| | Quote: a URL identifies a resource in cyberspace, a barcode identifies an object in the real world [»maraH10_1997]
| | Quote: Representational State Transfer (REST) manages resources; i.e., anything that can be named [»fielRT5_2002]
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Subtopic: cross-site identity
| Quote: cross-site identity and credentials form a social universe; can not recreate the social network for every new site [»ramaR8_2007]
| | Quote: global object model for PeopleWeb based on a common identity for objects, individuals, and attributes [»ramaR8_2007]
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Subtopic: scalability
| Quote: the Web has anarchic scalability; works despite load, malicious data, unknown servers, no state, no lists of back references, multiple trust boundaries [»fielRT5_2002]
| | Quote: linear scaling and simplicity important for Web applications; allows high volumes and throughput [»boswA10_2005]
| | Quote: stale data is OK; most data is updated infrequently or not at all; allows lazy replication and scalability [»boswA10_2005]
| | Quote: successful systems on the Web are bottom-up, depending on the wisdom of crowds [»boswA10_2005]
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Subtopic: distributed applications
| Quote: use anycast resolvers to forward requests to the best server; application-layer; e.g., ServerLoad.wwwnews%cc.gatech.edu [»bhatS4_1997]
| | Quote: Web components are deployed independently; old and new implementations co-exist; identify and encapsulate old versions; incremental deployment [»fielRT5_2002]
| | Quote: REST interactions are stateless; they transfer representations of identified resources
| | Quote: a representation of a REST resource consists of data and metadata as name-value pairs, metadata describes data and sometimes metadata
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Subtopic: service orientation
| Quote: Amazon constructs its gateway page from over a 100 services; each service conceived, built, and operated by a team [»grayJ5_2006]
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Subtopic: security and authentication
| Quote: gained unauthorized access to 8 of 27 Web sites; extracted the secret key from one [»fuK8_2001]
| | Quote: URLs can leak authenticators through the Referer header, allows cross-site scripting attacks without eavesdropping [»fuK8_2001]
| | Quote: HMAC-SHA1 authenticators were nearly as fast as unauthenticated HTTP; SSL is 10x slower [»fuK8_2001]
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Subtopic: site design
| Quote: a company's view of its home page does not matter [»singSN8_1999]
| | Quote: use ads and web sites to create ideal customers; positive beliefs, frequently visit, buy products, and advertise to others [»singSN8_1999]
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Subtopic: structured data
| Quote: structured data is an important sector of the Web; e.g., eBay hosted 2.4 billion listings in 2006 [»ramaR8_2007]
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Subtopic: types of users
| Quote: types of internet users--simplifiers log on for a purpose, surfers, social connectors, bargainers, news and financial routiners, and sportsters [»forsJ6_2000]
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Subtopic: personalization
| Quote: despite personalization, most users never customize the default page [»manbU8_2000]
| | Quote: use zip code to localize a user's default page [»manbU8_2000]
| | Quote: cross-site identity and credentials form a social universe; can not recreate the social network for every new site [»ramaR8_2007]
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Subtopic: accessibility
| Quote: a web interface must address all users, including non-U.S. and alternate platforms [»manbU8_2000]
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Subtopic: web servers
| Quote: web servers normally handle 100 requests a second within an order of magnitude [»boswA10_2005]
| | Quote: avoid servers responding to fine-grained events; e.g., keystrokes or mouse moves
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Subtopic: history
| Quote: the idea of the World-Wide Web arose from a home-brew personal hypertext system for a distributed project [»bernT8_1994]
| | Quote: the World-Wide Web was designed for merging independent projects without major or centralized changes [»bernT8_1994]
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Subtopic: problems with the Web
Quote: the Internet fails to help people institute and follow rules; could interconnect through flexible, world-wide, organized activities
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