Weblinks

Abstract

Without any doubt, creating links and navigational trails is fundamental to hypertext. The Web is the widest spread representative among all systems in the history of hypertext, although its underlying core concept is kept simple. This is why the Web's widely used link functionality is naive, supporting only embedded, unary and unidirectional links. A strength of the Web is its extensibility, giving us the opportunity to augment the current functionality of links. We showcase a browser plugin, which enables users to create and share complex links over the existing Web. Furthermore, we discuss the CB-OHS Mother, its link model and how this relates to existing work. The implementation adopts latest standardization efforts and is an update to older attempts of enabling external link services for the Web.