The ability to link to paragraphs is of course desirable.
The existence of an identifier that you can drag and drop
or copy and paste to create such a link is also a great
idea.
Whether those identifiers need to be numbers is debatable.
I was throwing open the option that a small icon would
work just as well.
The numbers are fine as long as the text is not long, the
hierarchy does not go too deep, and the content remains
stable, so that 9A4 is always found in the same place.
The numbers become less useful when:
a) The numbers become large and/or hierarchies get
very deep, Here's an extreme case:
34900AFCDRS6487BGHIC6214
Something like that is unlikely in an email message,
might well occur if information contained in a database
were somehow added to the system.
b) Things move around, so that 9E6 becomes the first
entry in the document, and 3A7 is the last.
In either of those two cases, a simple icon may be as
useful, from the standpoint of accessing information
based on the numbers.
Where numbers are short, though, I agree that the number
system, in effect, adds new "words" to the vocabulary.
At some point, for example, we might carry on a conversation
about the "9D" concept, you refer to below. In that case,
we have added a new word to our vocabulary (9D) that
encasulates all the thoughts presented there. (If we were
happen to talk about that subject a lot, "9D" might come
to be equated with www.bootstrap.org/index.html#9D, whereas
when talking about paragraphs in other documents labeled
"9D", we would have to qualify the name ("Henry's 9D") to
be clear about what we meant.
These thoughts just occurred to me, so I am leaning back
towards numbers, rather than icons -- for the reason that
they provide a mechansim for adding new and useful words
to our verbal vocabulary. (Darwinian selection will dictate
which words emerge as standard.)
Henry van Eyken wrote:
>
> Hope this one is more like it:
>
> http://www.bootstrap.org/index.html#9D
>
> Henry
>
> Henry van Eyken wrote:
>
> > I am confounded.
> >
> > The paragraph quoted below was in a piece of private correspondence
> to
> > Frode, with a copy to Nicholas. Interesting how it ended up on this
> forum.
> >
> > At any rate, to clarify, I was concerned with an issue of web-page
> design.
> > As for the usefulness of the numbers in working with documents, they
> serve
> > for referencing components of documents. Instead of an ordinary URL,
> we may
> > now profit from URLs with specific location included. Try <
> > http://www.bootsrap.org/index.html#9D >. I also understand that this
> > usefulness is particularly profound when working with Augment.
> >
> > Henry
> >
> > Eric Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > > Henry van Eyken wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > Am cc-ing Nicholas. As one who makes his living with website
> > > > architecture and
> > > > design issues, he is, professionally, quite averse to using the
> "funny
> > > > purple numbers."
> > > >
> > > For what it's worth, I agree with Nicholas.
> > >
> > > The numbers aren't of much use if you can drag and drop the
> > > pointers anyway. When that capability didn't exist, I'm sure
> > > they made life easier.
> > >
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