| March 20, 2002 | 03 00050 61 02032001 |
Mr. Garold L. Johnson
dynalt@dynalt.com
Dynamic Alternatives
http://www.dynalt.com/
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| Subject: | Copy Link Location Feature Added to SDS |
Dear Gary,
Just a quick follow up to our call yesterday on March 19. Following your lead
in a letter on March 13 showing application of
redundant links
to anchors in
SDS records and Welch publications, this feature was added to
SDS for resolving concern in a
letter
on January 6, 2002 indicating it would be faster
and easier to link correspondence.
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Here is how it works....
A
new SDS feature
creates a redundant link identified by two (2) dots above all anchors so that
people can copy the address to cite SDS records and other documents, similar to
the Purple Numbers feature you developed, based on Eugene Kim's work that
implements the original idea in Doug Engelbart's NLS program. You can see two
dots above paragraphs in this letter. These are now automatically generated
for publishing on the Internet with SDS.
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At this time all SDS records do not have 2 dots, however, as
correspondence continues, records cited will have these dots, as a result of
near term processing, and over time, all will eventually be processed. As
well, there will likely be glitches show up in some records that result from
adding uniform structure to free form narrative. If you encounter a problem, or
if you want a specific record processed, just let me know, since it only takes
a second to pop the stuff into the record and a few seconds more to transfer to
the Internet.
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Perhaps open source people can modify browser technology to capture a link
address highlighted by something like onmouseover, so that we do not clutter up
the record with redundancies; but, for now we can move forward.
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Please let me know if this helps in the effort to grow a
culture of knowledge
by using your writing skills as discussed on December 10, 2001 to relate
real world experience on the job to the theory and practice of management
set out in...
Sincerely,
THE WELCH COMPANY
Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net