At the exhibition
The ECT90 exhibition was on an intermediate
floor, sandwiched vertically between
the paper sessions and the panel
sessions. It was also the site of
the coffee and cocktails, and so
was well attended. There were a number
of booksellers - I (TBL) bought Nielsen's
book among others. The products on
display included
- Guide
- This was on the stand of its
French distributors, Frame. They
had various demonstrations, including
an Edinburgh city guide not as complete
as Glasgow Online but perhaps clearer
to read on a big screen in colour.
Guide looked extremely useable, and
had a high profile at the conference
owing to the active participation
of its inventor and of the OWL personel.
Guide was the next most quoted hypertext
system after Hypercard, which noone
really considered as a present-generation
product.
- Hyperdoc
- This is a French product
who showed a very impresive inclusion
of video into a Jaguar maintenance
guide. The video technology largely
came free with the VideoCard product,
including moving and resizing of
the video window within a containing
frame. I have a brochure.
- KMS
- I (TBL) saw Knowledge Management
System's "KMS". Personally, I found
the limitations it imposes rather
anoying. These included a fixed size
of frame, and the requirement that
an anchor must be a paragraph. KMS
was running on a Sun (it has to).