On 11 Aug 2009, at 11:29, Mike Myles wrote: [snip]
If a link says, "Read article," or "Download file," I darn well expect to get that result. Otherwise say, "Sign up to access articles," or something of that nature.
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The download/view option is especially pernicious for some expert users when it's styled to look like a link.
I did a test once where there were a bunch of "view blah (PDF)" links. The expert users alt-clicked to automatically download rather than read the document inline. They then carried on with other things - only to find out later that they'd downloaded a bunch of HTML forms :-)
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