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Re: *cough*
by Lee on Thursday 18/Dec/2003, @12:59

Is it correct? Shouldn't a hyperlink look like "subject of link" and nothing more, like "Apples" or "Picture of an apple" rather than "Apples can be found here, along with other pages about various fruit and vegetables and comments and other cool stuff"?

Hypertext has been around a long time guys... let's get it right :)

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Re: *cough*
by Ian Monroe on Thursday 18/Dec/2003, @13:10

I've wondered about this myself. The problem is that sentences require verbs. So I guess something like "<a href=''>Screenshots</a> are available." would make sense.

Having "here" be a link is just bad form in general. I know I often scan pages and read the links; "here" doesn't tell me much.

Adjectives and adverbs have been around a while as well... doesn't mean folks will stop mixing up well and good. Similarly "here" links will be around for a while.

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Re: *cough*
by Datschge on Thursday 18/Dec/2003, @13:46

Well, when I posted my first comment only "here" was part of the link. Having half of the sentence as link is not ideal, but still way better than just "here".

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Re: *cough*
by Lee on Friday 19/Dec/2003, @05:56

Still wrong and out of spec, though ;)

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