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Browsing the Web, One Sentence at a Time
rtmyers writes "A really simple yet radical idea: break web pages down into sentences, and then have the browser walk through sentences and do useful sentence-level things. This is the paradigm shift behind the product called Infowalker, which unfortunately is implemented as an IE toolbar, but would be fabulous as a feature built into Mozilla or Opera.
Currently implemented features include sentence-level interfaces for TTS, translation, large-type display, and the funkiest of all, dynamic display of an image pulled off the web based on keywords extracted from each sentence -- hey, turn all your web pages into slide shows today! Then there's the feature to show an Amazon product related to the sentence you're reading -- which presumably is the revenue model behind the product, but turns out to also be surprisingly useful.
This might not be for everyone, but it could just be the first real change in the browsing model since the earliest browsers starting throwing text up on the screen more than a decade ago. And apparently, Infowalker's architecture allows for pluggable third-party sentence-level "behaviors", with the potential for the development of a whole ecosystem of sentence-level functionality in browsers. And it seems Infowalker can also be controlled by strategically placed custom CSS tags within the HTML, raising the possibility of a new class of web pages especially tuned for this sentence-based approach."
...if people writing Web pages actually used sentences.
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
Agghk! Black-flagged on the opening lap!
Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
I have no idea what you mean. If someone takes the time to put the information online, we shoudl take the time to read it.
OK, I only ready the first couple of lines of this article, but I am sure that is where all of the relevant info was.
I'd type more, but my 7 seconds of attention have just expir
Its not just you I was thoroughly confused as well! Maybe something that broke the article into sentences would help us to understand?
WoW: Scheod 70 orc warlock on Shadowmoon
skip the all-to-common fluff and bad writing
Good point.
O! And you skipped the second "o" in "too". Such grammatical confusion of homonyms I've found to be all-too-common to nearly any writing on the web longer than two sentences.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Ah yes, that beautiful word "paradigm shift." I forget the exact wording, but the general quote goes something along the lines of "any time you hear that phrase, smile and nod while slowly backing away."
This is where I lost interest.
Moving (link to exercise gear) slowly further offtopic (link to a "hip new internet lingo dictionary" on Amazon), I (link to "I, Robot" movie) wonder (link to effective thinking seminars) if perhaps the already ridiculous (link to inday music band) noise (link to 80's metal band) to signal (link to electronics gear * 2) of english (link to ESL courses online) isn't a little unconducive (link to physicist's delight) to further disruption (link to white noise generators)?
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of slashdot
I hold with those who favor grammar.
This is a paradigm shift. They don't need screenshots.