HYPERTEXT BOWLS OF SPAGHETTI
Howard Strauss of Princeton University thinks WWW content designers need to
relearn some old lessons of scholarship: "In the past we learned how to
use footnotes, tables of contents, and indexes effectively, but in our
electronic formats we seem to have forgotten all that. We use too many
hypertext links, use them where they make no sense, ignore the difference
between footnotes and tables of contents, build links to bizarre and
unexpected places, ignore standard ways of linking, and confuse, rather
than enlighten, with hypertext structures that make bowls of spaghetti seem
like models of good organization." (Edutech Report, May'95, p.1)
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