Thierry Koblentz said: > Are you saying that you disagree with my interpretation of these articles > or that I am plain wrong? Both. You have misinterpreted the articles, and have formed an opinion based on that misintrepretation.
Further, you are defending your opinion by simply being contrary and nothing more (e.g. your claim that divs are hacks; you use skip links on your site but are argueing here that every link must load an entirely new document). > the popup window reference is irrelevant. > If you simply replace "opening new windows" with "using jump links" If you replaced it with "chocolate orange cake" it would make sense according to your logic, but it becomes glaringly obvious just how wrong that logic is. What you are calling "jump links" are nothing more than hypertext links. Hypertext links are the foundation of the web. W3C define hypertext links like this: "A link is a connection from one web resource to another [1]... The destination anchor of a link may be an element within an HTML document.[2]" > It seems that for the author the bottom line is *consistency* Consistency *is* the bottom line for usability. I have never disputed that. Nielsen also says use platform conventions. Creating a list of links to resources within a page is a convention for the web. [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/links.html#h-12.1 [2]:http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/links.html#h-12.1.1 kind regards Terrence Wood. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
