Double Click - open browser. And more

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/24/05 12:28 AM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

> But consider:
> 
> If you have a whole bunch of tables, each of which has more than one
> relationship with other tables, then how do you define forward and backward?
> Essentially, you can't.  Forward isn't defined by virtue of the number or
> type of relationships that a table has.  Forward is defined in terms of the
> direction the user choose to go by clicking on one of many different
> available relations.  And Back is then defined by returning to what you were
> staring at before.  THIS is the paradigm that both Pathfinder and Docuwiki
> and Safari support with "History" mechanisms.  It is a history of travel,
> not going forward or backward on a predefined path.

Right, I do mean such history
 

> So that is what is in my mind when I say that perhaps the concept of
> traversing links backward is merely self confusion, and instead is just a
> case of going forward in a different direction.
> 
> But that said.... it still does suggest an interesting new twist on the
> interesting new navigation interface that I have not described yet.  And I
> will include it when I make that proposal.

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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