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Posted by Els on 07/29/06 17:06
Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Els wrote:
>
>> Exactly nothing. Just don't add the code that prevents it. Don't use
>> the target attribute, don't add JavaScript,
>
> good advice for the great majority of situations, indeed.
>
>> and leave it at <a
>> href="filename.html">click the link</a>
>
> <rant> Please, don't suggest (even as a test case) the use of "click
> the link".
Sorry, I actually consciously avoid "click here", thinking that "click
the link" would get the point across as a substitute for whatever the
OP wanted the link to be :(
> The active text of an <a href=...> should be a short text
> relating to the *content* to which the link is pointing - optionally
> with a title attribute for a little more detail. Users already *know*
> what they have to do in order to use a link (it's difficult to believe
> they could actually reach your page without such elementary browser
> knowledge) - and in their case it might not really involve "clicking
> on" anything. Some suggestible authors might take your template far
> too seriously, and there's quite too many pages already on the web
> which exhibit the dreaded click-here disease.
> </>
>
> thanks
You're absolutely right of course. Any idea what generic text I could
use next time I give an example link? Hmm.. I guess I could have
figured that out myself already. Maybe "page X"?
Sorry, won't happen again.
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