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From: nick@abblund.se
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia, Hypermedia, Hypertext?
Message-ID: <1991Feb06.095148.27736@abblund.se>
Date: 6 Feb 91 09:51:48 GMT
References: <1991Feb04.124036.340@abblund.se> <1991Feb5.140305.9957@cbnewsh.att.com>
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In article <1991Feb5.140305.9957@cbnewsh.att.com> rkl@cbnewsh.att.com (kevin.laux) writes:
>In article <1991Feb04.124036.340@abblund.se>, nick@abblund.se writes:
>
>> HYPERMEDIA: Same as multimedia but interactive. Interaction is via 
>> associative links.
>
>	Hypermedia is a method of linking/organizing media.  It does not
>have to interactive.  Interactive should describe the relationship that
>occurs between the user and the application, not how the application is
>internally structured.
>

How can these links be used if the media is not interactive? The
structure must be there for a reason, and that reason must surely be
that the hypermedia is intended for an end-user, and that the user
should navigate through the structure, and this must be through some
kind of interaction. I can't think of any counter-example to this,
though I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

I concede that media can be interactive but still not be hypermedia.
For example, a video player can be viewed and frozen, fast-forwarded,
rewound, etc.  There is interaction, but there are no associative
links involved.

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