The one thing that separate the browsers use of metaphors from the desktops is the focus on relation between different elements.
If i point my fileexplorer to the "Library" folder which consist of more than 40.000 ebooks, podcasts etc. I can find any book I want but they are not naturally related. If we for the purpose of this discussion simply upload those 40.000 books and podcasts and call them the internet, then the difference is that on the internet they would be filled with cross-references between each other. I read a little bit in one book and it has a link to another book that more explicitly explain something that my first book don't That is fundamentally the difference and a browser then utilizes something called history that we then on top of that use to browse back and forward through connection of the documents. So unless you can start to get that relationship going on your computer it wont make much sense to talk about the OS as a Browser or Vice-versa. They are as such the same but the OS even from a purely content point of view does not have the same interrelationship between the documents as they would have where the browser point to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45492 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
