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Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 07/30/06 23:19
On 2006-07-30, Nico Schuyt wrote:
> Els wrote:
>> Nico Schuyt wrote:
>>> Els wrote:
>>>> Nico Schuyt wrote:
>
>>>>> But I still think the '... and now for <a
>>>>> href="somewhere">something completely different</a>' is not a good
>>>>> example link.
>>>>> Maybe <a href="blah.html">blah</a>?
>
>>>> I think the former one is a perfect example link. It shows how to
>>>> incorporate a link in a sentence. What's wrong with it in your
>>>> opinion?
>
>>> a. The 'somewhere' in the href is not a valid location
>
>> ... , "somewhere" could be just as valid as "somewhere.html". Not
>> everybody uses file extensions on their webpages.
>
> That's new for me. How could "somewhere" be a valid location?
It works for me; see
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/somewhere.html>
(click on somewhere).
> It could be
> about anything like somewhere.htm, s-.html, s-jpg etc.
> IMO only somewhere/ is valid.
> You can define files like index.htm or index.php as defaults. Is it also
> possible to set an extension like .htm als default??
>
>>> Thus, a sentence with an example could be "Use normal links like <a
>>> href="blah.html">blah</a>".
>
>> I doubt that in that example "blah" indicates a destination that is in
>> fact a normal link. Usually links point to pages or images or files,
>> not to links.
>
> Ehhh, the 'blah' is not the destination but the anchor text (=the visible
> hyperlinked text on the page; to indicate the subject matter of the page
> that it links to).
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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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