Don't know about best practice but I can tell you about ways I
approached it in the past and how I like it when I come to a page
with the options you offer.
I usually put helpful information in the title attribute of a link,
so a new window link includes : ..to open x in a new window
First: I don't think there is one solution that pleases everyone.
Personally, I think people should loosen up a bit on this list. I see most
posts move on topic at some stage.
Don't like the post, don't read it. I'm subscribed to 100's of mailing lists
and scan through the subjects, pick out
Thank you Matt
The value of a specifically defined list is adherence to that set of
definitions. Let's hold to the _standards_ of the list as much as we
can please. Although, saying that, I find it good to be helpful... so
am one of the goodwill exploitees, yes.
One thing though, in the
On 2/16/08, Joe Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Icons also help people make quick choices and allow you to provide the
documents in a tabular format when required.
Title of This Lengthy Document [PDF ICON] title=download the
PDF: Title_of_This_Lengthy_Document [MSWORD ICON] title=download
As Joe said, I also think icons are a great way for users to quickly
scan the page and get a sense of what is going on.
There is a nice article [1] that can show you how to automatically
style links with little icons depending on the extension of the file
it points to if you are interested.
