About the WWW Graphic History Browser

I've been working on a small research project on how to visualize a hypertext browsing session. The Browser is an extension to NCSA Mosaic. It adds a single menu item 'Graphic History Browser' to the Document View 'Navigate' menu which pops up the graphic history view.

Help page
JPEG Snapshot taken from a 24 bit workstation
Paper In Progress

Download a Binary

Most recent version (integrated into Mosaic 2.5) for SunOs 4.1.3 only.

histbrowser.tar.Z

These are dynamically linked executables. If they won't run in your environment, send me a message with the right compiler flags to make a static binary for your environment and I'll see what I can do. Sorry! No source available yet.

SunOs 4.1.3 2.2MB
IRIX 5.2 1.7MB
Solaris 2.3 1.2MB
Linux (as soon as I can!)
MS-Windows
A reasonable app-defaults file. Save as Mosaic in your home directory or wherever you put your app-defaults files.

Known Bugs

Thumbnails look terrible on an 8 bit server.
Clearing the Graphic History Window and hitting 'forward' or 'back' in document view causes a crash.

Other References

WebMap a project by by Peter Domel.
Midas WWW a browser by Tony Johnson and Chung Huynh at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Navigational View Builder a project by Sougata Mukherjea.
State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues and Applications a paper by V. Balasubramanian.
Xanadu FAQ

Special thanks to Dr. John Stasko for advising me on this project.

Copyright Notice

The Graphic History Browser is a feature enhancement of NCSA Mosaic. You may use this software under the terms of the NCSA Mosaic license. The graphic history browser is also copyrighted software.

Eric Ayers

zundel@cc.gatech.edu

Graphics Visualization, and Usability Center
Georgia Tech