The Missing Mechanic: Behavioral Affordances as the Limiting Factor in Generalizing HTML Controls
The paper analyzes Triptych, three backwards-compatible proposals for generalized HTML hypermedia controls, and introduces behavioral affordances to explain the remaining expressive gap.- doi
- 10.1145/3720553.3746684
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- 979-8-4007-1534-1
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- The Missing Mechanic: Behavioral Affordances as the Limiting Factor in Generalizing HTML Controls
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3720553.3746684
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- Alexander William Petros, Carson Gross, Dillon Shaffer, Matthew Revelle
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- https://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746684
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- CC BY 4.0
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- The paper analyzes Triptych, three backwards-compatible proposals for generalized HTML hypermedia controls, and introduces behavioral affordances to explain the remaining expressive gap.
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- Hypermedia, Hypermedia Controls, HTML, Triptych, Behavioral Affordances
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- 2025-09-15
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- HT '25: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Chicago, IL, USA, September 15-19, 2025
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3720553.3746684
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- Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia; Applied computing → Hypertext / hypermedia creation; Information systems → RESTful web services; Hypertext languages; Web interfaces
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- Alexander William Petros, Carson Gross, Dillon Shaffer, Matthew Revelle
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- Alexander William Petros (ORCID 0009-0002-8027-0133; Montana State University; contact@alexpetros.com); Carson Gross (ORCID 0009-0005-3512-6513; Gianforte School of Computing, Montana State University; carson.gross@montana.edu); Dillon Shaffer (ORCID 0009-0003-9282-0507; Montana State University; dillon@molkars.dev); Matthew Revelle (ORCID 0000-0002-2952-9835; Montana State Universtiy; matthew.revelle@montana.edu)
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3720553
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- 2025-09-15
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- Alexander William Petros and Carson Gross contributed equally to this research.
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- Alexander William Petros, Carson Gross, Dillon Shaffer, and Matthew Revelle. 2025. The Missing Mechanic: Behavioral Affordances as the Limiting Factor in Generalizing HTML Controls. In Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025), September 15–19, 2025, Chicago, IL, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746684
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