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Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

• To: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Subject: Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:56:27 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:27:27PM -0600, Bob Foster wrote:
>In the second, a hierarchy isn't a natural representation of tuples, 
>either. If it were, you would find at least one user interface in some 
>application somewhere outside the XML world that required you to do data 
>entry in a hierarchy. Tuples are better represented flattened into a 

Err.  regedit?  LDAP tools?  Less convincingly, perhaps, but the standard
navigation metaphor for filesystems is tree-structured and hierarchical.

>form, and iterated tuples are better represented as tables. If you have 
>to deal with data in an unnatural format, you might as well stick to text.

I'll note, though, that I use a text editor for writing XML.  All I want is
syntax highlighting.

Amy!
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  • Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
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