NotesHistorically, we could link to a certain part of the page only if that part had an ID. All we needed to do was to link to the URL and add the document fragment (ID). If we wanted to link to a certain part of the page, we needed to anchor that part to link to it. This was until we were blessed with the Text fragments!Unfurl
NotesLast November, I blogged about a few new features on NYTimes.com. Today weâre releasing an update to one of those features, which Iâve been calling âEmphasisâ: paragraph-specific anchor links and the ability to highlight text in articles and blog posts.Unfurl
NotesEmphasis provides dynamic paragraph-specific anchor links and the ability to highlight text in a document, all of which is made available in the URL hash so it can be emailed, bookmarked, or shared. Unfurl
Notes"What needs to be done to make the REST architectural style clear on the notion that hypertext is a constraint? In other words, if the engine of application state (and hence the API) is not being driven by hypertext, then it cannot be RESTful and cannot be a REST API. Period. Is there some broken manual somewhere that needs to be fixed?"FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Consider Coover Links â links in which the start of a sentence lies in one side of the link while the end of the sentence lies at the other. Coover links are named for Robert Coover, the author of a short hypertext âHeart Suitâ (McSweeneyâs 16, 2005) written entirely in this fashion."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Douglas Engelbart's whirling vision of the future; it was the first public use of a mouse, as well as examples of cutting, copying, pasting, teleconferencing, video conferencing, email, and... hypertext. It's just too damn much for 1968!"Unfurl
Notes"At a symposium in West Virginia, Nick Montfort asked Ted Nelson to describe a few programs that "could be used to enlarge the mind and liberate people""Unfurl
Notes"I have no idea exactly what "hotlinking" is. ... I think I may safely claim some expertise in this area â more expertise in the literature, I think, than any US or British judge currently possesses. So the passage is probably nonsense."Unfurl
Notes"Ever since Gamer Theory we've been thinking about how to design social environments for texts that aren't as conveniently hyper-structured as McKenzie Wark's."Unfurl