Re: The Great Document Menu Debate
"Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <P.LISTER@mail.cranfield.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: The Great Document Menu Debate
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Aug 93 16:56:57 BST." <"xss001.ccc.862:10.07.93.15.59.36"@mail.cranfield.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 93 17:24:20 BST
From: "Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <P.LISTER@mail.cranfield.ac.uk>
Status: RO
> Well, everyone wants something different.
>
> What we want to be able to do is have information in the HTML header
> that indicates the structural aspects of an HTML document relative to
> some larger whole, e.g. pages w/in an article, w/in an issue, w/in a
> volume w/in a journal.
What you describe is different, right enough - it's not at all the
series of URLs which can be warped to directly from the Document/Manual
menu that I (and I think most others) have been discussing.
What you describe appears to me to be a meta-document - i.e. it
describes the main document, and this kind of thing can be created
easily in HTML. If I want it to look really spiffy, I can have inlined
icons of arrows, volumes, etc. I need only process the document once,
all users get the same view of the doc (given the limitations of their
viewer), and you don't have to hassle Marc A and the team to produce
run-time hackable menus (or do it yourself). Whether you prepend the
meta-doc to the real doc or not matter of taste.
Peter Lister p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
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