Call me old school. Call me a dinosaur wandering the earth right before the meteor hit and turned my sorry butt to ash, but I still think a hyperlink should be a hyperlink. Further, I think a contextual link embedded in content with a anchored link a proper noun should go to that place. The Washington Post disagrees. Someone there, (cerntainly no one on this list), probably some horned sulfurous smelling marketing troll decided that a link should be something different.
I was reading this article "*Take Time to Rewind at the Hirshhorn's 'Realisms" *here: http://tinyurl.com/5z2qvx -- and decided that I really wanted more information, and to get down to the Hirshhorn and check out the exhibit. Right there in the middle of the article is Hirschhorn Museum, underlined, as if it was a hyperlink. I thought to myself, "Self - if I click this I will go to the Hirshhorn Museum website and see when/where/how what about this so I can catch it this weekend." The link did not go to the Hirschhorn Museum website. It submits a search to the WP website querying all related articles matching the the string Hirshorn Museum. From the results page there is no way to get info about the actual museum, it's website URL, or even a profile on the museum. Guess what? I didn't want to search for related items to Hirschorn on the WP website. If I wanted to do a search, I would enter it into a search box and click search. When I see a hyperlinked proper noun - it sure as hirshorn better take me somewhere I expect. Thoughts? Any other examples of "links behaving badly?" "links gone wild?" -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
