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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:11:09 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m19O3sz-000IetC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5x8ysg6p4r.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk)

   With users (including myself) becoming more and more used to web
   browsers, the traditional "info way" of presenting references looks
   old-fashioned, and is IMHO a real obstackle to a "natural reading
   flow".

There is the difference.  The more often I read a document with a Web
browser, the more angry I get at Berners-Lee for inventing a broken
format!  It is impossible to navigate through a multi-page HTML
document using regular expression searches!  

In a Web browser, there is no way you can get into a "natural reading
flow" in which you move around a document using the comforts and
efficiency provided by computers over the past two decades.

A Web browser is a time machine into the dark ages.

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                         Rattlesnake Enterprises
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.teak.cc                             bob@rattlesnake.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-05 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-04 14:04 Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info Karl Berry
2003-06-04 14:26 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-04 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-04 15:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-04 15:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-04 16:55       ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-04 17:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-05  2:38           ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05  3:23             ` Miles Bader
2003-06-05  5:52           ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-05 13:35             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-06  9:46               ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-06 11:28                 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-06-06 15:38                 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-05  5:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-05 10:58       ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-04 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-04 15:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 12:27 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06  0:11   ` Kim F. Storm
2003-06-05 22:55     ` Miles Bader
2003-06-05 23:11     ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2003-06-05 23:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-05 23:56         ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06  2:02           ` Miles Bader
2003-06-06 13:28             ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06  9:50           ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-06 13:02             ` David Kastrup
2003-06-08  1:09               ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-08  1:20                 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-08  2:30                   ` David Kastrup
2003-06-09  8:53                   ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-06 14:00             ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06 15:51               ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-06 16:54                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06 17:25               ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-08  1:07               ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-15 15:47               ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-06-15 16:08                 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-15 22:27                   ` Miles Bader
2003-06-16 12:02                   ` Reiner Steib
2003-06-16 18:45                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-15 17:46                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-16  5:46                   ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-06-15 19:00                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-06 17:24       ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-07 11:46         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-06 17:03   ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 16:50 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-05 20:50   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-06 16:05     ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-06 16:29       ` Luc Teirlinck
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-09 23:17 Karl Berry
2003-06-11  0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-08 13:48 Karl Berry
2003-06-08 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-09 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 16:30 Karl Berry
2003-06-05 16:44 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 23:39   ` Kim F. Storm
2003-06-06 17:03     ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 12:59 Karl Berry
2003-06-05 15:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 16:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 18:19   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-06 17:02   ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-04 23:12 Karl Berry
2003-06-05  0:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-04  8:54 Richard Stallman
2003-06-04  9:06 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-04 15:12   ` Andreas Schwab
2003-06-04 21:54     ` David Kastrup
2003-06-12  6:47       ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-06-12 22:13         ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-13  3:58           ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-06-13  5:00             ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-13  5:10               ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-13  6:16                 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-05  2:47     ` Kim F. Storm
2003-06-05 13:04       ` Andreas Schwab
2003-06-10  0:03         ` Kim F. Storm

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