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Part 3: Reflections (8 of 9)
The example with search is just one place where structure is
crucial. Here I've tried to depict another sense of integration - this
time the boundary we want to "ride" is between degrees of
structuredness (i.e. between the elements of this table). Each of the
kinds of navigation aids so well studied in our field ought to have
both kinds of instantiations. I look forward to the day when
structure available, say on a local host maintained by industrious
webmasters, can smoothly and transparently be made visible to a
web visitor and just as smoothly gracefully degrade when she leaves
for the "wide open spaces."
In short, structure may be the crucial distinction between
our view of hypermedia and the WWW's.
Last modified: Mon Sep 23 11:49:39 1996
Randy Trigg trigg@workpractice.com
