Xref: utzoo alt.hypertext:694 comp.text:7725 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!rutgers!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!dg-rtp!brennan From: brennan@rtp.dg.com (Dave Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.text Subject: Re: Designing Online Documents Message-ID: Date: 7 Dec 90 03:02:49 GMT References: <5514@newton.praxis.co.uk> <1990Dec1.204627.7223@dm.unibo.it> Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration) Organization: Data General, RTP, NC Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: fabio@dm.unibo.it's message of 1 Dec 90 20:46:27 GMT In article <1990Dec1.204627.7223@dm.unibo.it> fabio@dm.unibo.it (Fabio Vitali) writes: I think the single most useful feature you can add to the system is the possibility for the user to add his own links in a very friendly and easy way. You could store them apart from the actual man text, and allow for more than one file of links to be active at the same time. I agree with this, and it's something I eventually want to have our system do. The problem is how to store links separately. For example, file position won't necessarily work, because when the document is updated some items will surely move. Got any good ideas? Another thing that I find sometimes irritating in most hypertext systems is the One-Card-At-A-Time limit. If you want it to be really useful, think of displaying every man page in a window on its own, and let the user close the one he is not using anymore. We'll eventually be adding what I call "tear out" pages. The system will allow the user to create a new window which contains the node he or she is currently viewing. (The duplicate window would likely be for viewing only - ie: no navigation.) |\ Dave Brennan | \____oo_ brennan@rtp.dg.com =========================================((__| /___> ...rti!dg-rtp!brennan User Interfaces, Data General | // daveb@rpitsmts.bitnet Research Triangle Park, NC |// Phone: (919) 248-6330