Colin Barrett wrote:
On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:46 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote:
There's no need to guess.
There were many issues and problems with hyperlinks when they were
first used, and information about this is fully available in great
detail.
The following extract is by Jakob Nielsen from 1988
Curses - 1995 is wehen it was published, but it's all good.
Architectural Component of Hypertext Systems
http://www.useit.com/papers/hypertext_theory/
LazyWeb, Go! :) Thanks for the link.
If there is instead a visual cue of there being microformat content
on the page (an icon appears, or your hovered mouse shows you
something), then it becomes much easier to take action on potential
information of interest.
Isn't that what I was advocating? A hover effect for the mouse, like
Alex proposed (full disclosure, Alex is a co-worker of mine at Mozilla).
We may have different parts of the elephant here.
My opinion is that the "hunt around and discover a mystery logo on some
content" technique should be secondary and supplemental to aanother
indicator that the microformat content is there, whether it be a visual
icon, or an audible fanfare (just kidding), or *something* that alerts
the user by saying "Hey, wake up!" to its presence.
--
Paul Wilkins
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