TreeWeb
An Alternate Metaphor for Browsing the WWW
TreeWeb is a project Tracy Hornschuch and I did for our Spring 1997 CS 419 course.
TreeWeb is a browser that uses trees to represent the Web. This replaces clumsy history lists and bookmark files. It also helps answers the age old question: "Where was that web page I went to last week?" It does this by keeping a database of URLs and user comments about those URLs. To find a page, the user can search this database.
For more information see our Final Report that we turned in. You can also see the presentation slides from our in class presentation.
Unfortunately all we had time to implement was a prototype of the interface. The interface shows the features we intended to support, as well as the tree methaphor. It is written in Java, and it's interface looks best on the HP-UX 1.0.2 JVM. Unfortunately Java isn't as cross platform as it should be, and it will look messy on other platforms.
You can download the TreeWeb prototype from here.
Written By Dusty Reichwein
Last Modified June 11, 1997
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