A WWW supported course in
The evolution of this course material illustrates the fast changes in WWW technology. For historical and illustrative reasons, but also for accessibility reasons, we provide our visitors with the following viewing options:
This version is one of the very first Courses in the world, brought to the
WWW to this extent. The means available in '94 made navigation along highly
structured course material very difficult. We have tried to ease the
problem by introducing dedicated navigation buttons. Unfortunately such
buttons could only be embedded in the actual page, with the unpleasant
effect of their scrolling off the page in any decently sized document.
See how we have approached the emerging problems in a true precursor of
WWW supported courseware. Noticeable, in particular is the distinction
between absolute and relative navigation, and the inclusion of
a service section (called 'Feedback')
Can be viewed with Netscape 1.1 (or higher)
In this version, frames are being used to overcome many of the drawbacks of
the earlier edition: the absolute navigation buttons become part of a static
environment and provide various access points to the material. The relative
navigation buttons are connected to the table of contents, and allow for
various navigation modes (thread, topic, direct access). For an explanation
of the concepts, the visitor is invited to read up in the 'Help' section, in
particular 'About the Table of contents' and more specifically 'About the
presentation of the Course material'. We suggest also a peek at the 'To Do'
list.
Can be viewed with Netscape 2.1 (or higher)
Building and keeping track of the many links required to implement the
'frame-ed' version of the previous year has been, politely said - a
nightmare. In this year's version we take advantage of Javascript and Java
to automate this tedious process. As a result we have implemented a new
concept - the webBook - an interactive viewing environment for selected and
collated web-pages. This concept reaches much further than any of the previous
tools, enabling content providers to gather pages on the WWW or locally,
annotate them and collate them into 'Books'. Viewers may navigate along the material using relative mode,
topic mode or directly through the table of contents. At any time viewers
may inquire about their position in the provided material. Means for
selection of 'books', creation and management of the tables of content,
and the generation of navigation tools are performed automatically.
Please note that this product is in an experimental state, and may be viewed only with Netscape 3.01 (or higher? ... preliminary tests with various beta releases suggest that users stay away from NS4.0x for a while.)