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- I first posted this some weeks ago on the 'www-interest' list, and
- received only one reply, (complementing me on my reference to Rexx.)
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- I really had hoped that this post would start an interesting discussion
- on the topics I address, specifically the ideas of 'attention links'
- 'user documents' and 'transparent documents'.
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- <Preface>
- First of all, hearty congrats to the WWW people. It's a great tool, and
- since it is based on SGML, it has the broadest scope of any solution I have
- yet seen.
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- To others, see the current issue of Byte magazine regarding "Info-Glut" and
- SGML. Interesting.
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- <Query>
- One of the missing pieces here is the ability of creating new h-texts, and
- adding new links to old h-texts.
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- Hypertext, and like systems, are of limited use if they do not support
- collaboration. I feel that this is a VERY important point.
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- When might we expect extensions to WWW that support collaboration?
- </Query>
- </Preface>
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- I have a few recommendations regarding new link types in WWW. This is based
- on thinking about hyper-applications for almost 15 years, (ever since I
- first had the pleasure of hearing Ted Nelson speak in 1977.)
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- Please keep in mind that these are 'front end' issues. They should not
- affect the manner in which documents are stored.
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