Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @03:22PM from the father-of-us-all dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes, "HyperScope 1.0 is a new Web app based on Douglas Engelbart's 1968 NLS/Augment (oNLine System). Engelbart and team have been working on Hyperscope since March of this year in a project funded by the National Science Foundation. Its aim is to rebuild portions of Engelbart's NLS, on the Web, using current Web technologies such as Ajax and DHTML. In effect it gives an advanced browsing experience, including classic hypertext features like indirect links and transclusions of remote pieces of other documents. HyperScope has been completely built with open source JavaScript toolkit Dojo — meaning that everything is done on the client-side."

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Re:is this really a good idea? by PhrostyMcByte · 2006-09-05 15:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

If it takes you 10x longer to design the content and the person viewing the page can find what they want 10x faster then is it really a net gain?
Maybe it won't make sense if only a single person is viewing it, but with hundreds, the gain could be very useful. Not just to the readers, but the writer too - if 100 people view the doc and 75% of them are able to understand it better thanks to this, that's much less questions the writer will have to waste time answering.