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Outliners.com Message ID: 627

Posted by parkie
2000-06-14 08:28:46

I have read quite a few messages whose authors seem to think that outlining would be a great way to display information remotely, as HTML does.

How about if a windows outliner such as PC Outline were to save an outline as an HTML document with Javascript, in order to make it collapsable and therefore dynamic?

Presumably there’s a wealth of javascript code out there that could be tweaked to perform this task. This code could be included in a program (such as PC Outline), automating the comparatively difficult task of creating an interactive outline on a web page.

The effect of this would be the *easy* production of hierarchically organised web pages that would be:

viewable with any browser (the default would be expanded), and
totally cross compatible.

Ignore me if this is stupid or if I am missing something- but it seems to be the obvious answer - or at least a good stop gap.

<cite>P. B. Parkinson</cite>

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