> 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. It wasn't there anymore - I'm too lazy to look through the history to find out what happened to it. :-) > >> 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. Sounds good - committed: http://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/commit/f3c8fcccc1c90b6741a15963f3c6429a906bc97c > > -Sarven > > Thanks for the feedback.
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