Introduction
Surfing the web is a lot of fun. However, sometimes it is frustrating when someone is a professional in a specific field and uses some fancy jargon. It is always hard for the layman to understand what the author is talking about. It takes too much effort to surf the web again and look for other web pages that might have the explanations. If you are lucky enough, you may find them in a few searches, otherwise....
Our servlet provides a solution for this. It links the technical words or phases in a web page to sites that provide the explanations and references of the words or phases. The user connects to our servlet homepage and fills in the URL that he is interested. After the user gives this information, his browser will receive the URL document but with all the technical words being linked. By clicking on any linked word he doesn't understand, the browser will automatically go to a site that provides explanation or relevant information of that word. Thus, an explanation is just one click away.
Specifications
Here is the detailed specifications/explanation of WEBster.
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Here is an example of how WEBster works.
Just enter a URL below and press the "Submit" button. The page that you specified will be displayed, with definitions of words that are defined in our database. For illustration purposes, we will be using static pages instead of generating them on-the-fly.
The original document is here. You can see the defined page by pressing the button below.
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