Re: [unrev-II] Implicit hyperlinks

From: Eric Armstrong (eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 14:12:53 PST


From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>

Yup. What you said.
Agree with every word.

Bill Bearden wrote:
>
> From: "Bill Bearden" <BBearden@BCL.net>
>
> We have a basic User Interface (UI) issue to solve which goes a little
> beyond what Henry brings up. But I think the solution to the UI
> problem will
> also address Henry's issue.
>
> In HTML, we only get one-way, one-thing links. With XML, we have a
> much more
> powerful form of hyperlink. In XML, we can create links between a word
> in
> our data (could be a document) and many other things (multi-way,
> multi-thing). This means we can no longer expect the simple
> single-click to
> take us where we want to go.
>
> I suggest that we use the "mouseover" UI technique to expose links.
> When the
> user rests the mouse pointer on a word, they will see a list of links
> from
> which to choose. Perhaps the first thing they see in the list is not a
> link
> at all, but a contextual definition of the word (or phrase) if one
> exists.
>
> A standard UI technique for this may already have been decided on. I'm
> new
> to XML so I don't know. But it seems obvious that something will have
> to be
> done. Everything will be "hot" in future applications*: every word,
> every
> piece of data. And not all of the links will be derived from the
> data's
> source. Our personal servers will process the datastream and add links
> (or
> take them away) before the data gets to our UI. Whether it is done by
> some
> "webby" (WBI) agent or one of Douglas' virtual terminal server
> processes,
> eventually it will be done.
>
> Bill
>
> *It is one of my pet peeves that users today can click on a part
> number in a
> spreadsheet and go straight into the Inventory or Purchasing
> application to
> view other data about that part. Spreadsheets generally have no clue
> what
> you are typing into them. When "everything is hot", this will be
> possible. I
> believe we may also need a completely new UI platform to support this
> type
> of environment. This gets back to my rant about computing systems
> supporting
> what people do. For instance, people name things. The system should
> recognize the named object in every process.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vaneyken@sympatico.ca [mailto:vaneyken@sympatico.ca]
> > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 8:45 AM
> > To: unrev-II@onelist.com
> > Subject: [unrev-II] Implicit hyperlinks
> >
> >
> > From: vaneyken@sympatico.ca
> >
> > Just a thought that crossed my mind as am reading rather
> > specialized documents
> > outside my more ordinary areas of interest (such as the bootstrap
> docs):
> >
> > One often encounters unfamiliar terms, or terms defined within a
> > specialty
> > somewhat different than one is used to (i.q. the abbreviation IQ
> > in bootstrap
> <<snip>>
>
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