May 31, 2017
3:59 p.m.
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