- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 12:01:29 -0800 (PST)
- To: Liam Relihan <relihanl@ul.ie>
- Cc: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>, David - Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>, http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Liam Relihan wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Jeffrey Mogul wrote: > > Agreed. This is a somewhat different problem than the one which > > started this thread, but I would really like to see a browser that > > supported a "flatten" command (maybe "flatten 1 level", "flatten N levels", > > and "flatten entirely" commands). I don't know if this would require > > This is known as "folding" on some editing/hypertext systems. > > If we are only interested in folding as a means to allow readers to skim > through text and selectively reveal interesting bits, then this just > requires a new tag in HTML and browsers that will fold/unfold text in > response to this tag. Folding is good. It's the only way a Unix dweeb like me can handle the MacOS directory listing. Folding where the act of expansion can involve a fetch of more HTML text (or other objects) to inline would be phantastic. > Aside: Should a recursive fold be allowed ? Yes, definitely. Though this seems like it should be a www-html discussion.... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@hotwired.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/brian/
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