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- HyperRez: Obvious <sum08 1 8>
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- One problem with hypertext in knowing your "location" within a network
- of information <link52>. The possible location solutions are:
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- Graphical networks -- Provide a command that shows a graphical
- ================== map of your location within a network.
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- HyperRez - Hierarchical networks -- Organize hypertext jumps into an obvious
- ================================ classification structure <link32 2 10>.
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- HyperRez - Backpath book-marks -- Right arrow leaves an automatic trail
- ============================== of highlighted hypertext jumps <link23>.
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- In my opinion, the need for location commands occur because developers
- create too many circular instead of hierarchical hypertext jumps.
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- To automatically display a relative map of the current location
- in a network using graphical formats (with icons symbolic of the
- contents of each node) poses an interesting problem. Solutions reflect
- a "mainframe computational mentality" rather than an understanding of
- organizing structures that humans best comprehend <link37 1 16>.