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Re: *cough*
by Dawnrider on Friday 19/Dec/2003, @11:41

I think KDE needs a HIG, just like GNOME, and a clear aspiration to reduce clutter! I therefore vote that links be simplified to a much more generic form. The full stop is an ideal character to symbolise a hyperlink, and it provides us with a wonderful metaphor. Think of the web as a collection of documents, and hyperlinks as pieces of string, connecting them that users can follow. As such, the full stop actually is an accurate visualisation of the piece of string from the end on.

I think that users will really be able to get behind this new metaphor and that developers should work hard to make this idea ("string theory") a reality.

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Re: *cough*
by Dawnrider on Friday 19/Dec/2003, @11:41

j/k, btw, in the OSNews form :)

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Re: *cough*
by Eldhrin on Friday 19/Dec/2003, @14:11

And there I was about to raid your house and force you to use only GNOME for the rest of your life.

In all seriousness though, for real hyperlink accessibility you should use the title attribute...

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