- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:36:24 -0500
- To: "'noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com'" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
From WordNet: 1. hypertext -- (machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected; "Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper"--Ted Nelson) 1. hypermedia, hypermedia system, interactive multimedia, interactive multimedia system -- (a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together) 1. hyperlink -- (a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen) Pick the one that most accurately describes your current topic. len -----Original Message----- From: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [mailto:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com] I stand corrected, thank you. FWIW, I suspect that others outside of that part of the Research community may pick up a connotation that is unintended. I think it's a reasonable misunderstanding for a novice seeing the term "hypertext" to suspect that it in fact refers to some form of text, and thus fails to cover linking of other sorts of information. No need to discuss further, just take this as one bit of input and move ahead as you see fit. Thank you.
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