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Re:StretchText by masswerk on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:34AM (#32214447)
Marginally related: HyperScope by bootstrap.org (Doug Engelbart Institute). This is somewhat similar by providing hierarchical views into complex documents and referencing sections by ID, but is more realistic by doing this by a linear drilldown only.

[1] https://hyperscope.org

[2] https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/154/86/

[3] https://github.com/BradNeuberg/hyperscope

Note regarding realism: In my naivety, I once expected option-based content organization and composition, much like in StretchText, to become an inevitable feature of multi-platform presentation, when mobile clients arrived. Surely, there was no way to present content in a manner that would suit needs both for mobile presentation and traditional desktop presentations at once (regarding length, level of detail and feature richness), posing a serious economic challenge for any content production. Well, then we got mobile first. ;-)

Re:StretchText by kwatsonafter on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:08PM (#32214770)
I was going to link to this; top form fellow Engelbartian!
Re:StretchText by jdougan on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:50PM (#32218589)
Have they fixed the Firefox 2.0/XSLT dependency in Hyperscope yet?
Re:StretchText by masswerk on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:09PM (#32218733)
I'm not related to this in any way – so I can't speak for them. That said, the dependency is still mentioned in the Readme.

Provided that there are dependencies like Dojo and that that this was written in a time, when everything claiming seriousness was expected to look Java-ish, I'd guess, it may need a complete rewrite to fit the modern ecosystem. (Disclaimer: I didn't have a closer look at the code.)