So I can't stand it, so I'm going to blurt it out.
So I can't stand it, so I'm going to blurt it out. Yesterday, or maybe the day before, HN had another article by the Stop Drawing Dead Fish guy http://worrydream.com/ , which is one of those things that when you see it you say, "Of course he's right." Today we have these reviews of fresh books about a major battle and while they are probably very good (I thought to buy the BC one, myself), they are dead fish. It's a battle, and a complex one! Why are there not dynamic maps of the field, where you can fly through like on Google maps and that are situated depending on where in the book you are when you click on them? Why is there not a timeline so that on each page you can click to see what is happening at that moment on other parts of the field? Why can't you click on people's name and have a little bio pop up? At least put names in color so I can tell who they fought for? Why can't I click on a place name and hear it pronounced? Why are there not videos of soldier's uniforms, and of armaments of the time? Music people sang as they marched into battle? If you carry this book to the field, will it tell you, "you are now at the spot Wellington stood on at 12 noon"? I get that one reason is the lack of a format. I write some math materials and while I have looked, that I know of there is no format that is (1) typographically acceptable (that I have seen, that lets HTML and the Word formats out), (2) dynamic (PDF under Linux won't go), and (3) reasonably open. Very frustrating. Maybe I've got it all wrong, and I certainly do not have the technical chops to do anything about this, but it seems, to me anyway, like there is a hole here. Anyway, end of blurt.
Posted by jimhefferon on May 23, 2015, 7:49 PM
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So I can't stand it, so I'm going to blurt it out.
So I can't stand it, so I'm going to blurt it out. Yesterday, or maybe the day before, HN had another article by the Stop Drawing Dead Fish guy http://worrydream.com/ , which is one of those things that when you see it you say, "Of course he's right." Today we have these reviews of fresh books about a major battle and while they are probably very good (I thought to buy the BC one, myself), they are dead fish. It's a battle, and a complex one! Why are there not dynamic maps of the field, where you can fly through like on Google maps and that are situated depending on where in the book you are when you click on them? Why is there not a timeline so that on each page you can click to see what is happening at that moment on other parts of the field? Why can't you click on people's name and have a little bio pop up? At least put names in color so I can tell who they fought for? Why can't I click on a place name and hear it pronounced? Why are there not videos of soldier's uniforms, and of armaments of the time? Music people sang as they marched into battle? If you carry this book to the field, will it tell you, "you are now at the spot Wellington stood on at 12 noon"? I get that one reason is the lack of a format. I write some math materials and while I have looked, that I know of there is no format that is (1) typographically acceptable (that I have seen, that lets HTML and the Word formats out), (2) dynamic (PDF under Linux won't go), and (3) reasonably open. Very frustrating. Maybe I've got it all wrong, and I certainly do not have the technical chops to do anything about this, but it seems, to me anyway, like there is a hole here. Anyway, end of blurt.
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