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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
There have been so many attempts at StretchText-like interfaces over the decades! Most approaches (including this one) break object permanence in a way that I find very disruptive to fluid reading. LiquidText is maybe my favorite impl.
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yoshiki
@yoshikischmitz
RE: object permanence, I wonder if you could hit a middle-ground between this and
@gwern
's hover-previews(nice for quick looks) by showing these expansions in a hover menu with a "pin" button, which when clicked, would insert the expansion into the document itself.
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yoshiki
@yoshikischmitz
The reader could then decide what parts they want to just preview, and which ones they want to keep around, actively participating in the structure of the document, but without contstant reflows of the main text as in the original prototype.
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yoshiki
@yoshikischmitz
"interaction considered harmful" still applies I guess, but I think esp. in a really dense and well-researched document, each reader has a different idea of what citations/asides/annotations/clarifications are significant to the value they get out of the document.
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
That's actually become a common gesture in VR interfaces. In my experience, it's hard to get the threshold right: once you learn the gesture, you end up paying extra wait time when you want to intentionally invoke it, plus you still get false positives. If only BCIs etc
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