C3W: clipping, connecting and cloning for the web

Many of today's Web applications support just simple trial-anderror retrievals: supply one set of parameters, obtain one set of results. For a user who wants to examine a number of alternative retrievals, this form of interaction is inconvenient and frustrating. It can be hard work to keep finding and adjusting the parameterspecification widgets buried in a Web page, and to remember or record each result set. Moreover, when using diverse Web applications in combination ? transferring result data from one into the parameters for another ? the lack of an easy way to automate that transfer merely increases the frustration. Our solution is to integrate techniques for each of three key activities: clipping elements from Web pages to wrap an application; connecting wrapped applications using spreadsheet-like formulas; and cloning the interface elements so that several sets of parameters and results may be handled in parallel. We describe a prototype that implements this solution, showi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Aran Lunzer, Jun Fujima, Kasper Hornbæk, Yuzuru Tanaka
• Keywords: Diverse Web Applications, Internet Technology, Web Application Linkage, Web Applications, WWW 2004