The Webpage Topic

As to test in the pre-installed package from 25th of June 2009.

How to use

After creating a webpage topic, adressing an URL and pressing the Enter Key, a common webpage can be browsed.

That's nearly all, for the moment. That's how you bookmap your personl web while browsing and working in DeepaMehta. The webpage topic does not download the webpage for you by default anymore, it stores it's URL.

What works

• By default cookies are accepted, so you can login into your favourite wiki for example.
• You can upload and download content but both is not integrated into DeepaMehta's Desktop behaviour, it opens a Pop-Up and let you choose whre to store or where to pick the file from, manually.
• When clicking on a simple hyperlink (not form button) a new webpage topic is created in the corporate memory and immediately revealed and selected in your topic map.

 This also enables that you can use the Yahoo Search Engine and browse it's results 
 from within DeepaMehta's topic map interface through searching every topic by it's name 
 which you already created in your corporate memory.

Current known Issues

• The currnt progress of Loading a Webpage ist not displayed
• Currently does not load via Web Start / Applet Technology cause of the access to Lobo Extensions
• It changes DeepaMehta's Look and Feel according to the underlying OS Java Default.

Development Info

• DeepaMehta's Semantic Desktop currently makes use of the Lobo Browser with it's Cobra Rendering Engine.
• Yahoo Search API

Paragraph about browsing with DeepaMehta

Browsing the web is easy. Figuring out later where one has been is not that easy. A browser history is merely time-based and offers no means to attach any kind of additional information. Even worse, after a fixed time interval, the history is usually erased automatically. If not, it becomes so large that it is virtually impossible to handle. Additionally, the browser history contains no information about other resources accessed than web pages (5). Bookmarks sometimes do offer an annotation feature, but problems (4) and (5) still remain. Maintaining bookmarks in a way they remain usable requires quite some additional effort compared to mere web browsing. DeepaMehta offers constructive browsing as a solution: Each resource visited (be it a web page or something else) is represented as a topic in the current workspace. Each new topic is placed right next to the preceding one. The user can conveniently move these newly created topics around to other places in his workspace, which is always visible. Now, surfing the web or accessing other resources automatically creates a map of viewed objects. Even searches and search results are represented in the same consistant fashion. This spatially arranged map visualises a work process better then a list of named URLs? and it is persitant, automatically saved and fully navigable.