Related Work Table of Contents Future Work Conclusions 6. The systems described below are discussed in chronological order of appearance and were chosen either for their historical importance or because of their close relation to and impact upon the design of Chimera. It attempts to provide a standard hypertext terminology and also describe the important abstractions found in hypertext systems. In addition, atomic components contain anchors which index directly into the data and allow the data to be linked.
Composite components allow scalable hyperwebs to be constructed.
Link components contain specifiers which describe how atomic and composite components are linked together. Chimera cannot be completely modeled in Dexter. A composite component on the other hand only contains references to atomic components which only contain data. This additional level of abstraction is not possible in Dexter. Chimera's view concept handles this example easily while in Dexter there would be no way to specify it.