On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 22:52 -0400, Craig Andrews wrote: > Right now, links in notices are very opaque - users really have no idea > where they go when they click on them. For example, in this notice: > > <p class="entry-content">Testing! <a href="http://ur1.ca/106o"; > rel="external">http://ur1.ca/106o</a></p>
I must have overlooked this change because I remember we had <a href="shortURL" title="longURL">shortURL</a> implemented. > The user has no clue where http://ur1.ca/106o goes. I think that's less > than ideal. I agree that shortURLs are less than ideal since they are generic and all, but users do know where they go (ur1.ca/106o), a Web URL. And, the anchor potentially has contextual text around it. > I think the notice should have this markup instead: > > <p class="entry-content">Testing! <a > href="http://candrews.integralblue.com"; > rel="external">http://ur1.ca/106o</a></p> > > The notice is displayed the same, but now users can hover over links and > their browser will tell them where they'll end up. This is misleading because it is telling the user that the represented text is http://ur1.ca/106o but it is really pointing to http://candrews.integralblue.com . Most often than not - we don't always look at UA's status bar - it is assumed that the link is heading there as well. And, status bar is not always present or available to all UAs. > I committed this change to 0.9.x: > http://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/commit/ebb52efeb48212626d41a79b9d7e4f505323d074 I'd strongly prefer that we don't go ahead with this. > Another option I debated was to keep the href as the short url, but add an > alt attribute to the <a> tag with the long url. alt is not a valid attribute of element a in (X)HTML. Going back to <a href="shortURL" title="longURL">shortURL</a> would be ideal in my opinion. It also allows the user to copy the shortURL into their clipboard. -Sarven _______________________________________________ StatusNet-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
