WebMate
Applet in Browsing Mode
When WebMate is in browsing mode, at the end of each page there is an applet which provides the tools to operate on the current page, and some text to tell you where and when you are if you want to print the current page out or the browser has frames.

- I_Like_It: click here, you tell the system that you like this page and the system will learning your profile. The more you tell the system you like, the more accurate the system will recommend to you by enquiring the search engines or spidering the resources you have specified.
- Controller: click here, the system will pop up a menu to list all the commands.

- Alias
- Check
- Dictionary
- Download
- More
- Profile
- Reference
- Search
- Send
- Translate
- What's new
- What I like
- Start offline
- Alias

You can give a short name (alias) to the current URL you are browsing. There are two ways you can use the alias, one is to click the "List" button, all the aliases stored in the system will show and you can click the one you want to see; another way is to enter the alias in the "Location" input field of the web browser. Some words such as "help", "new", "result" and "like", are reserved to execute specific functions, don't use them as aliases.
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- Check

Check the syntax of the source code of a HTML page. It will give you the tree structure of the HTML page, and it also tell you where the errors maybe occur although it is not a strict syntax checker.
Check the availability of the links in a HTML pages. So it is a way to maintain your web pages because you can find and delete the dead links in your written pages according to the check results.
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- Dictionary

Lookup the online dictionaries. If any error occurs, please click the "Try" button.
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- Download

Download all the following pages in the current page for the offline browsing purpose. You can set the downloading level or depth (from 1 to 10), waiting time for a session (that is timeout), all the links in the different sites or only the links belonging to the same site, and you can also specify the content types. You should tell the system the directory where the system keeps the downloaded pages.
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- More

When you find an interesting page and you want to get more like this page by quering the popular search engines, just click this "more" (like this) button and let the system do all the work for you. The advanced Natural Language Processing technology is applied to extract the keywords of the current page.
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- Profile

The system learns your profile through your feedback. It can recommend you what you like by sending the high weight words to the search engines. You can also look up your profile composed of words and their weights.
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- Reference
When a web page is printed out, the information about the links is lost. Reference is a nice solution to this problem. You can print the web page which is like a paper including the references at the end.
For every link in the page, there is a small number indicating the reference.

And you can find the reference at the end of the page according to the reference number.

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- Search

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- Send

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- Translate

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- What's new

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- What I like

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- Start offline

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