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This hypertext is has a "follow-your-own-adventure" style. Although, not in the strict sense, as it's not exactly an adventure that you choose, but rather, different paths to take you to the only end (Dawn). Throughout the text, you are prompted to choose where you want to go, .... This is further explained in the STRUCTURE section.

Normally, i.e. in most hypertexts, the links that let the reader decide which path to follow are not part of the text itself, but are under it, in a menu-like fashion. This particular hypertext differs in that in most pages* the options are embedded within the sentences that the characters or you say.

STAY HOME

'Thanks.'

'So lunch or that walk?'

However, on some pages, the traditional menu has been preserved:

BREAKFAST

"I mean I assume you want to talk about Jess, now you're here and everything. But right now, I've gotta get ready.'

You go to the rally with Polly and Ned.

You stay at the house.

You are the ....

At the bottom of every page is this clock which serves as a shortcut that takes you to the first page of the story.

There is no specified typeface or size for the text in the HTML of the hypertext. Therefore, it is left to the browser to display the text accordingly to the preferences of the user. In most cases, this is Times New Roman, 16px.

However, the color of the links have been specified. All links are coloured purple, but the tone varies depending on wheter a page has already been read or not. An unvisited link will display #9932CC and a visited one #9932DD. When clicking on a link, the text turns #00000.

The text throughout the hypertext does not vary in style (no italics or bold) except for one sentence:

“Who's guilty now? Give us back our holiday pay. No return to the 1800s. No police state.”

No page has a background, but every page has a different image, which is analyised on this page: IMAGES.

No third-party plug-in, like Adobe's Flash, Microsoft's Sliverlight or Sun's Java, is required to read this hypertext.

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In this section I have gathered some noteworthy facts about the HTML, as this is the core of every hypertext in the internet.

This hypertext uses HTML prior to the widespread introduction of CSS, which makes this web page very primitive. This means that the style (colors, form etc.) is defined using only HTML from the 90s, thus the poor style of the hypertext (no defined typeface, size or other styling tools). Moreover, the HTML used is non-standard, as no version of HTML is defined in the headers, and seems to have been hand-written by the author herself or with a poor HTML programme.

Academic year 2009/2010
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Guillermo Chuliá Peris
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