[10847] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re:The Meaining of Pages [was re:pages]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Barry)
Thu Jun 12 21:20:03 1997
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:10:13 +1000
To: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
From: tony@ningaui.anu.edu.au (Tony Barry)
Cc: Fabio Preda <Fabio.Preda@italtel.it>, earonesty@montgomery.com,
www-talk@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
At 9:04 AM 12/6/97, Jordan Reiter wrote:
> 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.
And there lies the advantage over paper which breaks things up into fixed
sizes regardless of content.
Tony
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