Friday, August 31, 2018
Y no resonant coupling?
As I never tire of grousing, it's unfortunate that the Web was built on the shitty foundation of HTML. All sorts of useful features were missing from the start, and because of the shitty structure those features can't be added.
One such feature is coupling of words or references within one page. The human mind depends HEAVILY on 'sympathetic resonance' among concepts and words. Many complex pre-digital machines had ways to create such couplings or resonances. Organs and harpsichords had octave coupling.
Switches and controls often have 'tie-bars' that activate a second switch when the first control reaches a certain level. There are hundreds of such tie-bars and interlocks on cars.
So the idea is neither rare nor unfamiliar. It's the basis of thinking, for fuck's sake. Why didn't HTML include it? Mouse touches one member of the coupling, the other members change color or flash.
You can make it happen with some fancy JS trickery involving onmouseenter and div classes. Here's a stupid sample HTML page that couples all even numbers together and all odd numbers together.
It's not impossible, but it should have been intrinsic.
Labels: Answered better than asked
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