>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:31:02 -0500 (EST) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Non-member submission from >[Anthony Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 1 08:31:00 2001 >Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (chmls05.mediaone.net [24.147.1.143]) > by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA27581 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:30:59 -0500 (EST) >Received: from dellxps.gse.harvard.edu >(h002078c59c43.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.106.130]) > by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f11DUvS23926 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:30:57 -0500 (EST) >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:35:14 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Anthony Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [pws] Links to this page... >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > > > > It does not show links from the top page, as you can click top to get > > > to that page. > > > >Well, it's still confusing. The listed references serve two purposes - > >firstly to display all refering pages, and secondly to jump there. Now > >when the top page link is missing purpose #2 is not fulfilled by the top > >button, but not purpose #1. Could you make leaving out top references an > >option? > >I would agree. I had to explain this to a number of our users who were >confused about why the references sometimes appear and sometimes >don't. From a UI perspective, it's much better to be consistent and >duplicate other functionality (i.e. the top button) than to be >minimalist/efficient. > >Tony -------------------------- Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies. Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/ (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
