- From: jptxs <jptxs@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:36:34 -0400
- To: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- Cc: Fabio Preda <Fabio.Preda@italtel.it>, earonesty@montgomery.com, www-talk@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
i would love to talk about this too, but this is not the place there are newsgroups to cover this sort of issue At 09:04 AM 6/12/97 -0400, Jordan Reiter wrote: >At 9:40 AM +0200 6/12/97, Fabio Preda wrote: >>On the Web, I think the concept of "page" is different from the >>normal concept of page. >>The foundamental unit of information on the Web is the "document". >>When you click to follow a link in a browser, your request is to >>retrieve the content of a document and not about a specific page of >>the document. >>If some authors split a document in ..."pages", that I prefere to call >>document or sub-document too, it may be for some reasons: >>emulation of pages, organize information about the contents, >>simplify reading, graphic presentation, etc... >>(I'm sorry for the language, I'm not very skilled in English). >>bye Fabio >I work in web publishing (as do, I suppose, many of you) and while making a >sales pitch my employer heard one of his clients give a pretty good >description of what a "page" meant. She felt it described a "concept." In >a sense, each page *should* be a self-contained concept, without a *need* >to go to another page. There should be no sense of anything missing or >discontinuous (unless, of course, that is that author's intent for some >reason). The fact that the browser *is* a scrollable medium allows there >to be no limit on the organization and placement of information. > >I remember as I was creating a prototype online edition of a printed >magazine, I was copying the table of contents to HTML. As I did so, I was >including the page numbers. When I finished typing it up, I realized the >unnecessariness (Is that a word) of my action -- on the web, page numbering >is both unnecessary and nearly impossible (hence, it occasionally poses a >difficulty when citing a long web page in a paper). It was a brief moment >to reflect on the true freedom that hypertext offers. > >I think that though this mailing list is no doubt focused on HTML syntax, a >discussion of the *meaning* of pages, as well as solutions to problems >posed by the web's unusual interface, would be beneficial to all. > >-------------------------------------------------------- >[ Jordan Reiter ] >[ mailto:jreiter@mail.slc.edu ] >[ "You can't just say, 'I don't want to get involved.' ] >[ The universe got you involved." --Hal Lipset, P.I. ] >-------------------------------------------------------- > > > >
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