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Re: Reading the responses (Jeff Shepherd)
Date: 1994, Sep 07
From: Daniel M LaLiberte <liberte>

Yes, there should be a more convenient way to read through all responses. Sibling links (both forward and backward) would help, but one also wants to go deeper or skip back to higher levels. It would be nice to have one way to traverse all responses no matter what level they are on. But reading responses in that order would tend to jump around alot getting you confused about the context of each response. This is why the "star" configuration of responses in a single chain makes some sense. More on that another time...

I believe browsers should be made smarter about public and group annotations of documents, once a standard for them comes out. For one thing, it will soon be very important for readers to be able to see just the new annotations. What's new for one reader is not new for another, so the server cannot do a great job of threading the responses without alot of work.

I'd also like to see browsers that can open a page for a link but always on another page. This would let you click on response links in the tree at the level you are interested and see the response text in another window, the same other window each time. This would avoid filling up your window history with the whole thread of all responses you have read.

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