Sometimes there is value to revealing the details of a URI - perhaps a document will be consumed offline, and the reader will be able to navigate by manually rekeying the address. Or perhaps I want to reveal the site structure to facilitate discovery of other resources. In those cases I would use Andrew's 2nd example. In the majority of cases, though, I would follow the first example. 0.02 -----Original Message----- From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:00 AM To: ua-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] SAC095 - SSAC Advisory on the Use of Emoji in Domain On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 03:49:21PM +0000, Andre Schappo wrote:
My standard practice is to make, whenever possible, my links WYSIWYG. I think it a good practice. Sometimes it is not possible because of overly long and complex URLs.
It's never actually been a recommendation from hypertext people, however. They've always suggested that you should put links liberally in running text that is in itself nicely readable. So, <a href="target">In a previous post</a>, we discussed UA… as opposed to In a previous post, which you can find at <a href="target">target</a>, we discussed UA … Why do you think it's a good practice? It makes for very stilted text. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com