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Re: collapseable documents
Marc Brown at DEC SRC a system called zippers that creates collapsable
sections based upon parsing of header tags. See:
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-140.html
for more.
> I find myself wondering whether it would be possible to have a browser
> support colapsable documents. I'm thinking of how the Mac Finder
> has an arrow in the view by name display, and if you click
> that arrow, then the directory's contents are displayed. I
> think something similar is possible with displaying documents
> if those documents are reasonably simple.
>
> It wouldn't work if I've written a paragraph like this:
>
> <p>
> This is a sample document. <A HREF="section1.html">Section 1</a> describes
> cases where this will work, and <A HREF="section2.html">section 2</a> discusses
> the cases where this will work.
> </p>
>
> So it can't work for all pages. But it might be doable in some cases.
>
>
>
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