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- From: langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Subject: Re: Novel navigation techniques
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.153742.4100@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:37:42 -0600
- References: <1992Nov15.004816.4084@memstvx1.memst.edu> <1992Nov16.155529.2435@mydual.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov16.155529.2435@mydual.uucp>, olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov15.004816.4084@memstvx1.memst.edu> langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston) writes:
- >
- >
- >>I would be interested in...
- >>discussion, regarding novel navigation techniques in HyperText. By _novel_
- >>I mean something other than a simple keyword->link->node path, something
- >>other than simple index or 'overviews', something other than simple
- >>backtracking or page flipping.
- >
- > First, a general comment: expressed as k->l->n the only choice seems to me
- > to be the character of the link. (I am considering keywords and hot
- > spots on graphics screens to be functionally identical.) Comments on
- > this assumption would be helpful to me.
- >
- [...deletia...]
-
- >
- > Except for calling an external program, I don't see where I would end up
- > except at a node. In fact, I want to find a way to make the external
- > program return a node address to HyPlus.
- >
- > Does this address the point? What else should I look at? Are the
- > starting and ending points less fixed than I imagine? Are there links I
- > do not know of?
- >
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > Kirtland H. Olson olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
-
- Well, perhaps I was not clear... when I referred to the 'simple' k->l->n
- structure, I meant the inflexibility (and sometimes arbitrary) of assigned
- links. What I meant to address was this: what unique methods exist for
- deciding link type, resultant node, keyword to link(s) assignment, link(s) to
- node assignment, etc. What novel methods are used to get away from the rigid,
- programmer-assigned link structure, and allow the user more flexibility in
- cossing keywords/links/nodes, besides typical indexes or overviews...
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