Posted by Els on 03/25/07 12:51

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Els:

>> Yes, but <href is missing the 'a' part.
>
> Oh, I missed that. But the fixed code still does not work on Opera.

My fix does - I wrote <a href="#top">, not <a href="#">.
As I always use #top, I don't remember ever noticing the Opera
problem.

>>> On the other hand, "back to top of page" links are worse than
>>> useless.
> - -
>> Pointless for some, useful for others. I've been navigating long pages
>> in my phone browser, and 'back to top' is a lot quicker than scrolling
>> per page (no home button on the phone).
>
> There's surely a quick way to get to the top on your browser. You just
> haven't found it yet, and satisfaction with some back to top links helps you
> avoid finding the solution. :-)

Even if that were true (which it isn't!), I'm happy to provide
"superfluous" back to top links for those who haven't discovered the
home button on their browser, for whatever reason. Also, just like I
prefer to use my keyboard far more than my mouse, some people surf the
web mainly by mouse - I think they prefer back to top links[1] too.

BTW - is that a smiley you typed at the end of that sentence? I don't
remember ever seeing smileys in your posts - is it your first? ;-)

>>> Well, that's a bit worse. An adequate link text seldom contains a
>>> verb (predicate) and hardly ever in the imperative.
>>
>> Is it your nitpick day today? :-)
>
> No, it is quite normal for me to comment on answers

No kidding!

> that point to a wrong direction.

I think that 'wrong direction' is subject to personal opinion most of
the time, and the level of wrongness defines whether a comment is
nitpick or correction. In this case, my personal opinion of the level
of wrongness of my advice is clearly different from yours :-)

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[1] Shouldn't 'back to top' also be wrong? Who says I came from the
top? I could have followed a link from elsewhere to an anchor in the
middle of the page. So, nitpicking and all, I reckon it should just be
"to top" links, not "back to top".

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