Lex Spoon wrote:
- Having other kinds of links is also quite useful! It's a nice
blend of structure and freedom. Random links should definately stick around in a newer system.
What are these supposed to do? Can you elaborate that a bit further, please?
Thus the web today has less accessible information content than it could if all the flashy pages were cleaned up.
IMHO it is not mutually exclusive to have both - some good and fancy design and a wide accessibility (even to disabled people). The style sheets as they are in the HTML 4.0 Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/) are a good step in the right direction.
There is not always a need to reinvent the wheel just to make this world and its web a better place. ;-)
- Surfing is possible. People can end up reading things only
tentatively related to where they started. This is much like creative thought in general....
You read Jay David Bolter's "Writing Space. The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing", did you? ;)
Do links *really* need to be all that human readable?
Of course not. I do not have the source at hand right now, but Tim Berners-Lee said once that when he designed the web he did not imagine people writing HTML code by hand and having a need of nice and fancy URLs. All this was supposed to be hidden information that a user does not need to care about.
Roland
You read Jay David Bolter's "Writing Space. The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing", did you? ;)
Do links *really* need to be all that human readable?
Of course not. I do not have the source at hand right now, but Tim Berners-Lee said once that when he designed the web he did not imagine people writing HTML code by hand and having a need of nice and fancy URLs. All this was supposed to be hidden information that a user does not need to care about.
Roland
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