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I really enjoy hearing about how creatives use and deform web authoring tools. Also it makes me wonder: is there any CMS or WYSIWYG actually designed to author in a web way, and not from the origin of a print perspective?
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 22 Favorites 2018 Mar 4 Mood +2 🙂

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There are lots of CMSes I've used, some good, some bad, but I don't think a single one was built with the intent to produce things for the web, and not for printing out.
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 4 Favorites 2018 Mar 4 Mood 0

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Like, why is it so difficult to connect writing to a multimedia asset or a link on almost everything? Why is managing creative sequential multimedia assets usually so difficult? Why is it so hard to build horizontal presentations of content?
On twitter.com ❤️ 4 Favorites 2018 Mar 4 Mood +5 🙂

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The ways in which our tools limit us are incredibly subtle, so much so that we don't even know what possibilities we're missing.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1 Retweets ❤️ 3 Favorites 2018 Mar 4 Mood -2 🙁

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Like: thought experiment - what would a CMS meant to manage each panel (as a separate asset) of a 6 panel per page web comic look like, work like, or be used?
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2018 Mar 4 Mood +9 🙂

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Or what about intending written content to be paired with audio? How is it we don't have a common read-along format outside of the relatively ancient application of closed captions to web media?
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 3 Favorites 2018 Mar 4 Mood 0

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Think about how limiting closed captions are when you have an entire web page to place text relative to video or audio on?
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2018 Mar 4 Mood 0

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There is tons of data implicit in just a hyperlink, and so few CMSes do anything with it. Or like the struggle with footnotes in almost any system... Or that there isn't a better way than tooltips to handle asides.
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Also: why are there no decent tools for building branching narratives?
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It's crazy to think about small conceptual changes that could have huge outcomes. Like what if we designed a CMS inspired by PowerPoint instead of Word? What a fundamentally different web we'd have. It would be nice if we felt inspired by our authoring tools instead of limited.
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