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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 09/13/07 04:53
Scripsit Art:
>>> There are some instances where an alternate type of hyperlink
>>> identification by color and styling is desirable.
>>
>> To whom?
> Professional web site designers and their clients who pay the bills.
Well, my question was really rhetoric. I was implicitly referring to
so-called users. I know that pruhfessional dee-ziners compete in inventing
and implementing crazy ideas.
>> When visiting a site, it can be quite relevant to see
>> at a glance which sections you have already visited.
> One could make that case for links within body text that refer to
> static content, but not for masthead navigation links that point to
> content that is dynamic.
You have missed the point. Being in "visited" state simply means that the
linked resource has been visited relatively recently, not that its content
is all known to the user. Whether the resource is "static" or "dynamic", the
user cannot know that its content has not been changed since the last visit.
But he can know, for example, when visiting a site for the first time, or
for the first time in this quartal, whether he has _now_ checked the main
pages of all sections - unless a dee-ziner decided that his fixed ideas on
cool appearance is more important than usability.
> Major sites such as [...]
contain lots of examples of poor usability, fragile coding, etc. etc. Your
point? Big companies have money to waste. The good news is that you can
create great sites by just doing nothing (in many areas where so many
organizations and authors waste time and money to create poor usability).
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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