[148] in World Wide Web
Re: mosaic as a better wais client; mark up the "catalog"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Berners-Lee)
Fri Jun 18 03:31:41 1993
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 08:41:02 MET DST
From: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)
To: emv@garnet.msen.com, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Cc: h@nxoc01.cern.ch
This is a case for an HTTP server which sits on top of the WAIS
database and gives an enhanced hypertext view of it. I think
Jim Fulton was wondering about this. A simple example is that,
instead of returning a search result with an item
whose name is "Search failed, here is the catlogue", which
looks strange preceded by "The search produced one result:",
it could give a nice informative hypertext message, and
(ifg it is small) include the catalogue immediately.
Anothre example if that the server could have a home page
with links to any help about it, instead of having to
serach for "help" which sometimes gives lots of othre things
too.
Tim