TreeDoc

A typical document is structured heierarchically, with a main body, sections, sub-sections, footnotes, and so on--like a "tree," with a root, some branches, and many leaves. Why not read a document in its native form, as a tree? Directory trees, for example, are best viewed and navigated with "tree controls" (like the Windows Explorer): you see a vertical list of top-level directories, and opening one inserts its contents below and indented. Items there can themselves be clicked to open their contents in place, and so on all the way down, without ever hiding the top-level stuff you started with. Everything appears in place, and nothing gets erased.

The TreeDoc system gives documents and pages that same nested, open-in-place behavior. TreeDoc is really just an implementation of the FluidDocuments project, which visually distinguishes in-place opened links by indentation, font face, and color, while using that common color to highlight both the link and its content.

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Last Edit: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:32:31 -0800
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