[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/xupdf article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/01/23 06:23:34

Modified files:
        xupdf          : article.rst 

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        reorg

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.15&tr2=1.16&r1=text&r2=text

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Index: manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.15 manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.16
--- manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst:1.15  Thu Jan 23 06:08:36 2003
+++ manuscripts/xupdf/article.rst       Thu Jan 23 06:23:34 2003
@@ -58,31 +58,27 @@
 Introduction
 ============
 
-- Modern graphics accelerators enable several visual effects not possible 5 
years ago
+In many hypertext systems today, following a link means a disruptive change
+in the user's workflow, replacing the current context with an
+entirely different one.
 
-- still, most systems still use in the paradigm developed in 70s at Xerox PARC:
+- possibly because most systems still use in the paradigm developed in 70s at 
Xerox PARC:
 
-    - overlapping, rectangular viewports to paper-like documents
+    - overlapping, rectangular, *independent* viewports to paper-like documents
 
-In this article, we ask what could be gained by using 
+       - link operation: create new window, or switch contents of window
 
-we present some user interface technologies 
-developed for 
+       - alternatives, e.g. replacing part of text (XXX antont's reference)
+         not very popular
 
-Previous works, notes
-=====================
+There have been various attempts to alleviate these problems:
 
-In popular web browsers today, following a link means a disruptive change
-in the user's workflow, replacing the current context with an
-entirely different one.
 
 - `Link titles`_ (in the HTML standard at least since 2.0)
   give additional information by the linking page's author
   about a link's destination
-- Focus+context views of the web as proposed by 
-  Mukherjea and Hara [#mukharjea97fcwww]_ give a 1'000ft
-  view of the linking strucure (need to read & find out whether
-  they show thumbnails, or what they show)
+
+.. _Link titles: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980111.html
 
 - Fluid links [#zellweger98fluid]_ can be put in by the original author,
   or by the user [XXX ht'01], 
@@ -101,6 +97,16 @@
     Here, neither paradigm applies fully as you would need to move both
     the mouse AND your eyes.
 
+  - Also, the following the link that received the fluid annotation
+    still has the same disruptive change.
+
+
+- Focus+context views of the web as proposed by 
+  Mukherjea and Hara [#mukharjea97fcwww]_ give a 1'000ft
+  view of the linking strucure (need to read & find out whether
+  they show thumbnails, or what they show)
+
+
 - In XLibris [XXX ht'02: going back in hypertext], recently visited
   pages are shown as thumbnails at the bottom of the window
 - Free form 'digital ink' annotation [e.g. XLibris, iMarkup?] is currently
@@ -127,7 +133,14 @@
     authors cannot anticipate the information needs of all readers." 
[schilit98digital]
     Therefore, *the readers must make the links*! (Or be able to.)
     (Should be able to find this point somewhere.)
-- Nelson's transpointing windows [1979] are not about showing a set of links,
+
+- pad++ browser: shows linked docs next to it
+
+- Hypercept: [#milgram99hypercept]_
+
+
+- Nelson's as of yet unimplemented
+  transpointing windows [1979] are not about showing a set of links,
   but also represent connections crosscutting the view hierarchy.
   
   Known implementations to date:
@@ -140,17 +153,16 @@
     existing view systems, but tricked its way around it)
 
 
-- pad++ browser: shows linked docs next to it
+Modern graphics accelerators enable, even on commodity hardware,
+several visual effects that were only possible 5 years ago on expensive
+graphics workstations. 
+It is time to re-examine the...
 
-.. _Link titles: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980111.html
 
-It is important to maintain orientation locally (i.e., left/right
-direction of links, etc.) but the space need not be globally
-euclidian. This matches the way the brain understands space
-as globally distorted, segmented, locally Euclidian views.
-Some refs (should search for more/better):
-http://acad88.sahs.uth.tmc.edu/research/publications/iccs2001spatial.pdf
-http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/hunt99orientation.html
+In this article, we ask what could be gained by using 
+
+we present some user interface technologies 
+developed for 
 
 
 xupdf:
@@ -166,8 +178,14 @@
        - nadir
 
 
-Introduction
-============
+
+It is important to maintain orientation locally (i.e., left/right
+direction of links, etc.) but the space need not be globally
+euclidian. This matches the way the brain understands space
+as globally distorted, segmented, locally Euclidian views.
+Some refs (should search for more/better):
+http://acad88.sahs.uth.tmc.edu/research/publications/iccs2001spatial.pdf
+http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/hunt99orientation.html
 
 Supporting user-interface technologies
 ======================================