One of the most attractive aspects of the Web for me is the community approach to town planning in that everybody gets a crack at contributing to the onward development and construction of the Web.
If you feel like it, you could devise a new idea, notion, open standard or concept and if it's good enough, or not as is sometimes the case, you can then effect its acceptance, more or less single handedly, to a planning comittee populated in most part by your peers and fellow cyber engineers.
Whilst some conventional market forces do prevail in this process, like competition for example, and the particular flavour of marketing that relies more upon the inherent credibility of the proposal, its referral and endorsement by others than it does mass marketing techniques like spam, its mostly a brave new world founded on the cornerstones of creativity and first mover advantage and governed by the prinicples of democracy and meritocracy.
It is with this grand vista in mind that I propose the following definition requirement for the approval of the committee - I'm recently given to thinking that we need a name for the action of clicking on a hyperlink by mistake and falling foul of the all too brief time that's available to you to move your mouse pointer to the browser's Stop button in a futile attempt to prevent your browser session launching off in the wrong direction. This is especially frustrating if you've been filling in a form of the kind that loses its memory when you inadvertantly leave it and attempt to get back to where you left it by clicking the Back button, only to find it's previous contents have disappeared.
A blink? A flink? A fluck? Doh-link? Diaperlink? A Slap-link?
What would we call the moment between realising that you misclicked a link and when your browser heads off in the wrong direction away from your current page?
The Win-Doh?
If you feel like it, you could devise a new idea, notion, open standard or concept and if it's good enough, or not as is sometimes the case, you can then effect its acceptance, more or less single handedly, to a planning comittee populated in most part by your peers and fellow cyber engineers.
Whilst some conventional market forces do prevail in this process, like competition for example, and the particular flavour of marketing that relies more upon the inherent credibility of the proposal, its referral and endorsement by others than it does mass marketing techniques like spam, its mostly a brave new world founded on the cornerstones of creativity and first mover advantage and governed by the prinicples of democracy and meritocracy.
It is with this grand vista in mind that I propose the following definition requirement for the approval of the committee - I'm recently given to thinking that we need a name for the action of clicking on a hyperlink by mistake and falling foul of the all too brief time that's available to you to move your mouse pointer to the browser's Stop button in a futile attempt to prevent your browser session launching off in the wrong direction. This is especially frustrating if you've been filling in a form of the kind that loses its memory when you inadvertantly leave it and attempt to get back to where you left it by clicking the Back button, only to find it's previous contents have disappeared.
A blink? A flink? A fluck? Doh-link? Diaperlink? A Slap-link?
What would we call the moment between realising that you misclicked a link and when your browser heads off in the wrong direction away from your current page?
The Win-Doh?