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- > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 11:32:40 -0800
- > From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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- > The commonality here is that some documents should only appear in
- > dialog boxes (when the browser supports it) as opposed to appearing
- > and being dealt with as full-fledged regular documents.
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- The NeXTStep browser gets a similar look progressively, by
- resizing the window to exactly surround the document if it will fit on a
- screen, and then by eliminating both the scroll bar and the "resive bar'
- (NeXTStep window decoration) if the document is also not editable.
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- > The advantages in implementing this kind of thing are (1) WWW becomes
- > a little more like some other current systems (notably Intermedia,
- > with the effectively one-to-many links), boosting its ability to take
- > over the functions that other systems have provided up until now, and
- > (2) navigational disorientation is lessened when minor references
- > (e.g., to glossary entries or menus of anchors) are instantiated
- > onscreen as minor GUI elements.
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- Another possibility is to allow for a 'collection" object which is separate
- from a document and more constrained, would have a simple on-screen
- representation, would map to gopher menus, newsgroups, lists, etc.
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- > So how about allowing a tag (say, <transient>) to be included in the
- > header of an HTML document to specify this property?
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- > Marc
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- I worry that you will find that there is a continuous gradient between the
- transient and the non-transient, with many stages in between.
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- > ps Specifically for the glossary system, I'm thinking of having a
- > regular glossary document with all the entries in a list and then
- > having a special server shell script strip (say that three times fast)
- > out a given entry when it's needed, adding the <transient> flag while
- > constructing a document for the entry on the fly.
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- this is what Mike Sendall's STING gloassary is. (See link from CERN page).
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- Tim
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