14th
August
2000
“Individuals, communities and nations rely on [maps] to manage spatial and political complexity that would otherwise exceed human perception and memory, and to adjudicate claims of ownership and jurisdiction. Mapping appears to be fundamental to human consciousness of space and time. All cultures record their experience in artifacts which are consumed in plainly maplike ways, though these artifacts may little resemble the brightly-colored wall hangings that most Americans (for example) recall from grade-school geography classes.”
posted in Internet | Permalink |
14th
August
2000
“Individuals, communities and nations rely on [maps] to manage spatial and political complexity that would otherwise exceed human perception and memory, and to adjudicate claims of ownership and jurisdiction. Mapping appears to be fundamental to human consciousness of space and time. All cultures record their experience in artifacts which are consumed in plainly maplike ways, though these artifacts may little resemble the brightly-colored wall hangings that most Americans (for example) recall from grade-school geography classes.”
posted in Mapping | Permalink |
14th
August
2000
“WebML enables designers to express the core features of a site at a high level, without committing to low-level architectural details. WebML concepts are associated to an intuitive graphic representation, which can be supported by CASE tools with user-friendly interfaces, and can be communicated to users and non-technical members of the site development team (e.g., to graphic designers and content producers). WebML also supports an internal XML syntax, which instead can be fed to software generators for automatically producing the implementation of a Web site.”
posted in Web development | Permalink |
14th
August
2000
“Suppose somebody’s got a real-world store, and here comes Mrs. Customer. She drives up, parks, and eagerly makes her way to the front door. She looks around, musing that the place looks great — really novel and colorful. They even have catchy music playing. But when she takes hold of the front door handle, she discovers it doesn’t work like any door she’s used before. She wants to shop at their store, so she fusses over the problem and eventually manages to get inside. Unfortunately, it doesn’t end there.”
posted in Interface design | Permalink |
14th
August
2000
“WebML enables designers to express the core features of a site at a high level, without committing to low-level architectural details. WebML concepts are associated to an intuitive graphic representation, which can be supported by CASE tools with user-friendly interfaces, and can be communicated to users and non-technical members of the site development team (e.g., to graphic designers and content producers). WebML also supports an internal XML syntax, which instead can be fed to software generators for automatically producing the implementation of a Web site.”
posted in XML/XSLT | Permalink |
