Interactive web-based hypermedia coordination

This paper discusses the interactive coordination of hypermedia documents' components in the world wide web environment, proposing a design space based on discrete events transmission between linked media and on an extension of the concept of spine introduced by the IEEE 1599 standard for music description. The elements of the design space draw from the early hypermedia models the basic concepts of anchor and link, framing them in the world wide web technology, and integrate the user interaction into dynamic media behavior in a coherent and seamless way. The paper describes the components and operations defined in the design space, giving a rationale for them. Several examples are discussed which represent the typical patterns of dynamic media synchronization and user interaction found in current hypermedia applications. Guidelines for the implementation in the standard HTML5/CSS/Javascript environment are also discussed.