Forms of Hypertext
Lexia-and-link, node-and-network hypertext: Some Oppositions
- Read/Write [Intermedia, Microcosm, Storyspace author environment] vs. Read-only (presentation or broadcast mode [World Wide Web; Storyspace reader])
- Stand-alone [Hypercard, Guide, Storyspace] vs. networked [Intermedia: Local Area Network (LAN); World Wide Web: Wide Area Network (WAN)]
- E-book [Dynatext] vs. hypertext
- Translated [individual books on the Victorian Web] vs. written-for-hypertext [entire Victorian Web]
- Self-contained documents [CD-ROM edition of Oxford English Dictionary] or inter-web linked [HTML edition of OED]
- Links stored separately [Intermedia, Microcosm] or in individual lexias [Storyspace, WWW]
Stretchtext
Spatial Hypertext
Last modified 27 January 2005