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Re: Jumbotext - A New Feature to WWW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Burchard)
Fri Jun 30 16:07:06 2000
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:52:27 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Paul Burchard"<burchard@pobox.com>
To: "James P. Salsman" <bovik@best.com>
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Daniel Alexandre <walkman44@excite.com> wrote:
> With jumbotext, in the text of a web page every single
> word would be outlined and in different colour (similar to usual hypertext)
> when pointed by its mouse cursor. Then with a simple click one would see a
> menu to: see the definition of the word, see its translation to different
> languages, and hear the word spoken in audio.
Sounds like link smog to me -- and what about phrases and sentences?
Actually, this idea was implemented the right way over 10 years
ago in the (pre-web) NeXTSTEP "Services" architecture. Basically, the user
could make any (multimedia) selection in any application, go to a standard
system-supplied menu, and have other apps perform their registered
services on that data (in-place if appropriate).
On the web, this could be implemented as a "query URL bookmarks" feature.
Paul Burchard
