I don't link the @ sign because 1) I don't like how it looks and 2) Twitter.com does not.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:21, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > A more lighthearted discussion to see where people stand on this > convention. > > We all know the convention of prefixing usernames with the @ symbol, > the interesting thing I notice is that different sites (and even > within tiwtter's site itself) decide to link or not link the @ symbol > along with it. > > Main twitter site: is NOT linked > search.twitter.com: IS linked > new twitter integrated sidebar search: IS linked (i suppose this uses > the same code as search.twitter) > > TweetGrid: is NOT linked > Tweetie: IS linked > etc.. > > just curious how people decided which convention to use. > > From a visual perspective I prefer having the @ be plaintext since it > provides a nice visual difference looking at word, whereas normal > links are bounded by whitespace. This makes the usernames pop out (to > my eyes anyway). > > -Chad > -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Web608 | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
