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11:57 am![[info]](http://lj.rossia.org/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} apophates[Link] | At this point, we are not concerned about the ‘how’ of implementation, only the user experience for some fairly simple and straightforward enhancements. Some of these features are hard to describe adequately in the absence of the ‘back-end’ data and automation, and they will depend greatly on commercial, political, and social decisions along the way as to what is desired or allowed. Context awareness, which would allow ‘intelligent’ client behavior. Ideally perhaps, semantic parsing of document context could reduce the need for user decision and simply present ‘most-probable’ options as distinctive link elements at the rendered location. Alternatively, the client might provide an on-the-fly generated sidebar of ‘related links’, including information about the site owner. Several proprietary variations of the theme are found in adware-related generation of ‘spurious’ hyperlinks in displayed content, which however is more intrusive and annoying implementation in the absence of other cues. A simple example of context feature for content is found in newer browser clients, where the user can highlight text and right-click to access Web search or other useful actions, as illustrated in Figure 1.2. Persistent and shareable annotations, where users can record private or public comments about Web content automatically attached to given document (URI) and ideally internal location, in context. Public comments would then be shareable among an entire community of users perhaps most usefully in goal-oriented groups. Persistent and shareable ratings, which is complement to annotations, providing some compiled rating based on individual user votes. mouse-over of link might then pop up tooltip box showing, for example, that 67% of the voting users found the target document worthwhile. Of course, not everyone finds such ratings useful, yet such ratings (and their quality) might be improved by consistent infrastructure to support them. More realtime data, which would result from the ability of Web clients and services to compile Web pages of data, or embed extended information, culled from variety of sources according to the preferences of the user. Persistent and shareable categorizations, which would be collaborative way to sort Web documents into searchable categories. The common theme in most wish lists and methods of addressing the deficiencies of the current Web model is that the issues are based on adding information about the content. Then the user client can access, process, and display (or use it) in ways transparent but useful to the user – ideally with some measure of user control. |
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