Er, I think that's what started this thread, someone considered them
synonymous (or perfectly antonymous, thus redundant).
> > Extra-document navigational paradigms are good. I'd like to see a browser
> > (or write a Java applet :) that did an MHEAD depth-first traversal on a site
> > going 6 or levels deap that built a sketch of the infospace on the site, with
> > "parents" (or their semantic equivalent given a large glossary for the
> > "higher" in a hierarchy) towards the top and children (or equiv) towards
> > the bottom. To this list, it's not so important *how* it's laid out as
> > that we provide the mechanisms for doing so.
>
> Yes. Notecards had such a browser, but it logged *all* link types and used
> 'contains' links to build the hierarchy (although all the links were shown).
> In the long run the 'contains' links (which forced users to put documents
> in a 'folder') were abandoned and cited as the single biggest pain by authors.
> But so much add on software lazily looked for 'contains' instead of author-
> specified organizing criteria that effectively the 'contains' stuck hard...
One bad implementation doesn't negate the concept.
> > cyclical graph of the space you've *traversed*. The sooner
>
> Doesn't IBM's OS/2 Warp browser attempt to do this ? I haven't seen it.
I am pretty sure there was a Win3.1 app that did something like this, at
least, though I haven't been able to try it out.
Brian
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