From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-02-24T04:46:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tycho - A PIM under development


> Sam Roberts wrote:
> >The problem with the web-like interfaces where you follow links is that
> >it can feel like you are in a maze - you see where you are, you see
> >where you can go, and you remember the last few places you were. What if
> >you could move up a level, see the relationships between places?
> > 
> >
> c2.com has a bit of this built-in. For example, go here: 
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingSystem ... then click the 
> VisualTour link at the bottom of the page.

I cranked the width and depth, and couldn't get more than a dozen nodes
on a page, it is very much still in the prototype stage! And it suffers
badly from the hideousness of html browsers as the lowest-common-
denominator gui.

The discussion links lead to something more promising:

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TouchGraphWikiBrowser

It seems to ditch the web interface, but it sounds like they are having
problems using against a live wiki, the required xml-rpc interfaces
aren't there yet. I'll check back in a year, though, it looks like there
is a lot of interest.

Thanks for the pointer,
Sam