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Answer: | Ted Nelson gave it that name. If you think it's just text, that's a little limiting but hypermedia is more general. It's a provision for... |
Notes: | Normal Hypertext links are explicit and allows
no further options than a simple transport to a predefined location
to be displayed in a predefined style. OHS uses a different terminology
which vastly increases the users options. Moving from one location
to another is referred to as jumping: º Jumping can take place through a simple click on a link as with regular Web URLs. º Jumping can be implicit such as looking a word up in a dictionary or glossary. º Jumping relatively such as jumping to next item in a sequence, to the end of a document, jumping to predecessor. º Jumping in OHS affords the users further flexibility by allowing viewspecs to be added to the end of jumps and addressees, specifying how the document jumped to is to be displayed including truncation for dynamic outline generation. |
Follow up Comments - More on the history of linking: "What kind of linking existed before you started doing this and where were you inspired?" - "The only mention of anything like it..." |
More on linking: "Can you elaborate especially on linking?" - "It seemed like if you were going to really use a computer..." |
Keywords: | Hypertext, Hypermedia, Ted Nelson, citation, explicit pointing, link, high granularity, optional views, implicit links, |
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Format: |
.au 11.127 khz 16 bits mono with µLaw 2;1 compression. Originally recorded on an Apple Macintosh PowerBook
using a SONY ECM-T145 condenser microphone and Adobe
Premiere audio/video editing software. The original recording
was saved as a QuickTime file at 22 mhz, 16 bits with
no compression. |
Recorded: | Session 1. 7/22/2000. Interviewed at Dr. Engelbarts residence in Atherton, California, early Saturday morning by Frode Hegland @. |