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BROWSE_SEQUENCE

                                     March 18, 2004
                               Rev:  July  23, 2004

I keep using the term
"browse sequence"
maybe I should explain
it:

All of the pages here are
chained together with
"next" and "prev" links,
so that you can start at
the top node, and step
through all of them.  That      I first encountered this
sequence is the "browse         jargon in the days when I
sequence".                      was working on Microsoft
                                format help files, (circa
                                Windows 3.11)..
Originally, the
"doomfiles" was        The "browse sequence"        MS help files were
one big text           in MS help files was         a "closed"
file, so you           intended to let you          hypertext format:
could just read        read through each            written by
it from bottom         topic like turning           professional
to top.  There         the pages of a book.         authors, then
was a browse                                        compiled and
sequence there,        Click on the "next"          shipped in a
whether I wanted       button enough                monolithic,
it or not.             times, and you               unalterable form.
                       could be sure you'd
                       tml">HISTORY          Essentially all the links
                       entire help file.         were internal links,
     CONTENTS

          (It should show more info:
           A date, a topic description...)



   A thought I've had before: use a different
   link label to show a strong or weak connection
   "NEXT" vs "next".

      Where would that be encoded?
                                         Abandon use of text files
      In the master browse sequence?     as the source file format?

                                         Add more fields to the
                                         original text file format?


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