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hypertext theory wants to argue that repetition is important, this isn't just reiteration of a key point but returning through a previously visited node or sequence or nodes. the model is, if you like, musical.
The use of a meta element in the header of an html document to send an http refresh or redirect instruction does not per se force a new page to appear. Try viewing such a document in a browser such as Lynx which does not support automatic refresh. Quite a part from the technology used to access the html (you can read html in a text editor), there is the question of reading the ephemeral.
It seems very odd to compare a "detooled" reader of print to the computer user.
Adrian Miles
Humanist
14.0681 function follows form, or not
Feb 19 2001
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François Lachance
Humanist
14.0696 hypertext interrupted, or the meta tag
Feb 24 2001
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François Lachance
Humanist
14.0683 function follows form into argument
Feb 20 2001
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