August 30, 2007
hamlet.doc and tab, tab, tab
A couple of quick links worth reading:
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, Matt Kirschenbaum muses on the challenges and opportunities for future literary studies in an era when the material basis of authorship—including journals, notes, correspondence, and manuscripts—is increasingly born-digital in hamlet.doc.
And over at if:book, Dan Visel considers tabs, nonlinearity, and parallel reading styles in tab, tab, tab.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:44 pm
The tab article, though admirably thorough in covering user-interface tabs and the TAB key, does miss an additional meaning that’s been contentious over the years: the TAB character as encoded by ASCII code 9. This classic document covers the interrelation of that character with the TAB key, and the associated holy wars (no tie-in to tabbed interfaces, though).
August 31st, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Visel’s article is great and goes in directions that I wouldn’t have guessed from the first few sentences. Unfortunately, it also neglects the first diet soda.