I can't remember the M$ lingo, but didn't they enable "smart tags" in
Office documents a few years back that did something along these same
lines? The concept may have been solid, but finding people who
actually like them is hard.
Another thing to watch out for is that excessive links to other
information can make things harder to use and screw up navigation.
When the web first came out, a lot of people talked about how great it
was because every word in a document could be a hyperlink. In
practice, this is a bad idea. Answer Tips aren't nearly as bad because
they don't direct people away from their contexts, but it would be
interesting to get some user response on this.
kyle
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> I, too, hate anything that pops up or acts as I move about the screen,
> or that comes between me and what I'm actually trying to do. I hadn't
> thought of the copy/paste, but I did note that it doesn't work on
> multiple words, just single words. In many cases, single words are not
> the target. (Try: American | University | Rome ;-))
>
> kc
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