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posted by Editor on Saturday October 13, @11:40AM
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Hyper-G is an attempt at a second-generation Web system that tries to solve many of the problems programmers are now having with HTML and the Web. The system is heavily influenced by the ideas of Ted Nelson, who coined the term "hypertext" and envisioned a web-like system with his Xanadu design long before the Internet emerged. Like Xanadu, Hyper-G allows bi-directional links between HTML pages, so that you know what other HTML pages link to a given page. Other features include the ability to define different types of links (i.e. "criticism" or "example"), which allows you to sort for only those links to be displayed. Links can be made to only part of a document, even one word or one letter, and work on non-ASCII documents, such as PostScript, GIF/JPG, or video. There is fine-grained access control: for each document, including who can specify viewers of the document or its links, who can edit the document itself, who can edit the links etc. Hermann Maurer's book on Hyper-G is available free online, and a commercial implementation of the system is available from Hyperwave.
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