There are no real conventions yet, and my almost certainly futile hope is that it will remain that way. I'm not personally fond of gathering links as buttons across fictional screens, but many people have a preference for them as non-interference to reading. One of the most obvious, but evocative and subtle ways to use links is naming them in the URL, which in Netscape is displayed on the screen as you pass the mouse pointer over the link. This is similar to the hypertext program, Storyspace , which allows labeling of links. Nor, in all this grousing, do I want to fail to note brinking changes in quality of light, that is, better tools either just now available or soon coming.
Browsers hold the most immediate promise.
Zoomable Interface , not yet here, but a most needed idea for elegantly navigating a dimensional web. All told, there's still not enough light available for the things many of us want to do with this technology, but maybe if we keep complaining. . . We're interested in comments from writers and readers alike. If you have a Web browser that can read newsgroups, you can take part in FEED's online discussions.