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WebMap: a graphical hypertext navigation tool

Computer Networks and ISDN SystemsPublished 1 December 1995
Peter Dömel
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Abstract WebMap is intended to help avoiding the well-known “lost in hyperspace” situation by creating and updating a two-dimensional graphical map of a user's "journey through hyperspace" by dynamically analyzing the navigation actions.

Abstract

WebMap is intended to help avoiding the well-known "lost in hyperspace" situation. It does this by creating and updating a two-dimensional graphical map of a user's "journey through hyperspace" by dynamically analyzing the navigation actions. WebMap communicates with the Mosaic WWW browser, so user interactions with Mosaic are immediately reflected in WebMap's graphics window. WebMap also may be used to control Mosaic, e.g., to cause it to load a new document into one of its windows or store a document in PostScript format.

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