Toward Hypertextual Glossaries

Appendix: Technical Notes

This hypertext is written in Strict XHTML 1.0 with Cascading Style Sheets version 2, without any dynamic content (i.e., client- or server-side scripting) so it should be rendered reasonably well by any conforming browser. XHTML tables have been used but only for presenting tabular data and the navigational aids at the beginning and end of each text chunk. Where entities have been used for content (e.g — for a punctuation dash, or § for a section symbol) they have been used by name so that browsers that cannot display the symbol should preserve the meaning of the markup by presenting the name to readers. Where non-breaking spaces have been required they have been encoded as numeric entities ( ) so as not to unnecessarily distract readers.

Although these precautions have been taken the document has only been viewed with Netscape 7.1 for the Macintosh on a regular monitor (not a handheld device).

Link Types

Redundant information has been encoded into link types [Trigg & Weisner, 1986; Campbell & Maglio, 1999] to help readers to determine if they should follow the links during a first reading, on a subsequent reading, or never. The link formatting has been chosen so the types can be distinguished from each other and ordinary text, and yet not be intrusive or distracting [Bernstein, n.d.; Campbell & Maglio, 1999].

Cascading Style Sheet Rules

CSS rules have been used to show different link types in visual browsers. The three types are:

1. Links to individual works referenced in the the article

should have dotted underlines in the usual colours

Two example images

a. Citation in line

b. Citation in a marginal note (note background colour and font)

2. Links to resources outside of this article (e.g., at the ACM's Digital Library)

should be underlined as usual

One example image

3. Non-citation links to parts of this article

are underlined as usual but the text should be in boldface

Three example images

a. Navigational link in the body of the article

b. Navigational link at the start and end of a text chunk (note the background colour)

c. Cross-reference link in a marginal note

The exact presentation will depend on the reader's browser software and its configuration.

References

References for works cited in this text chunk appear below. References for all works cited are available in a separate chunk.

[Bernstein, n.d.]

Mark Bernstein. showing links. HypertextNOW. (No publication date given but copyright 2003. Certainly was online circa 1998.)

<URL:http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/ShowingLinks.html>.

[Campbell & Maglio, 1999]

Christopher S. Campbell, and Paul P. Maglio. Facilitating navigation in information spaces: Road-signs on the World Wide Web. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 50(4):309 – 327, 1999.

<DOI:10.1006/ijhc.1998.0246>.

[Trigg & Weisner, 1986]

Randall H. Trigg and Mark Weisner. TEXTNET: A Network-Based Approach to Text Handling. In ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, 4(1):1 –23, January, 1986.

<DOI:10.1145/5401.5402>.

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