Overview

[WardCunningham]

We anticipate a command line tool that can usefully browse the wiki federation. To this end we will create Java mechanisms that duplicate in the simplest way possible the current single page application. This will demonstrate that our collaborative hypertext is not irrevocably dependent on javascript or the browser.

We begin with four parts, three modeling the dynamic text and the fourth operating the model under user keyboard control.

graph TD;
    Browse --> Lineup --> Page --> Item;
    Browse --> Page;
    Browse --> Item;

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The Lineup represents an ordered list of pages that grows and shrinks and where earlier pages provide context as new pages are added to the end.

Each Page represents an ordered list of items and sufficient history to resolve links to other pages in the federation.

Each Item represents a paragraph or paragraph-like component of the page. We will accept that the types of items that we can reproduce may be limited. Nearly all include plain text that would be meaningful in isolation.

The Browse will show the text of the current item of the current page and then accept commands to follow links in an item or to otherwise navigate to other items or pages in the lineup.