At 3:16 PM -0000 7/15/97, Simon Pockley wrote:
>Andrew Daviel wrote
>Until we have some form of rechargeable paper, these are not 'pages' they do
>not resemble pages in any way. One screen might contain 100 pages if printed.
> Screens have a different aspect ratio a diffferent look , a different feel,
>contain different kinds of information and have a different set of paradigms
>altogether. Many can't be printed at all.
The visual (although not always visual; here you make your first mistake
about HTML) rendering of (an) HTML document(s) (is that better than
"webpage"?) is not a "screen" either. Your term is worse, since it
suggests that HTML documents *must* be rendered on a screen when in fact
HTML has the potential to be rendered wholly aurally (or printed out on
paper, YES). And if you come across a VRHD (Visual Rendering of [an] HTML
document[s]) hundreds of printed pages long that takes up only one screen
(ie, no scrolling), then you either have way too large a monitor or way to
small a printer.
>The discussion about resource types suggests that there are some people out
>there who still think of these screens as some form of paper. Time to realise
>that there is another medium out there with completely different archival
>demands. These demands will not be met by ignoring their existence.
"Realise"?!? ...must be British. ;-]
Maybe I'm confused, but you seem to be worshiping at the same altar that
you claim *we* do, so to speak. I mean that you feel that we are limiting
our comprehension of the web by assuming that all webpages are are little
bits of paper. But this is only because *you* cannot conceive of the term
"document" as being anything *more* than bits of paper. When we call
choose to create resource types, and call some of them documents, we say
*nothing* about their intended size (graphically), number of pages, or even
what form the information is in.
The purpose of creating resource types is to make it clearer what a chunk
of content--and this is *any* kind of chunk of content, not just HTML, mind
you--is. For example, is this text document an essay? Is it a letter? Is
it a biography? Is it a peice of e-mail (like the one you sent)? Is it an
advertisement? Is the image I am about to open a photograph? A cartoon? An
illustration? A reproduction? Is the movie clip I am about to watch a
documentary? An animation? A stop-motion film? Claymation?
Although certainly the resource types listed so far in the proposal do not
necessarily include all of the examples above, I think you get the idea.
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