hyper-theory@math.byu.edu	Gavin Nicol
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From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 04:47:08 GMT To: fil@mpce.mq.edu.au CC: john@eco.powernet.co.uk, hyper-theory@math.byu.edu Subject: RE: Web neurons X-UIDL: 832855795.000 >Hypertext has shown that linearity doesn't pay, because computer-based >hypertext (in most cases) is more linear than the book equivalent! We've >stripped so much navigation away (the natural page interface) and put >very little in its place to assist users. This is actually a point I have made many times to various people. Most current Hypertext systems using a "scrolling view" model, which I find to be most disconcerting. Having a small degree of speed-reading skills, I find my natural navigation paradigm is build around the image of a page. With scrolling views, every time I scroll, I push a new page image onto my navigation stack, and I quickly become overwhelmed by the sheer number of images, leading to "lost in hyperspace" feelings. >My point is, don't use HTML for the hell of it - only where >appropriate. For myself, I look very much forward to being able to handle SGML on the WWW. That will open the road to modeling whatever one wants as one conceives it.