[thelist] Useability/design Opinion's sought
Stephen Rider
evolt_org at striderweb.com
Wed Mar 23 16:13:26 CST 2005
On Mar 23, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Chris Heilmann wrote:
>> There are advantages to this (printing is a good example), but
>> disadvantages as well. This partially breaks the "back" button, is
>> potentially confusing, and will mess with ratings in Google and such
>> if
>> the link text is nothing but the address itself.
>
> I do understand the google rankings (albeit that is not really a
> problem
> unless you want to boost their scores) but how that breaks the back
> button
> functionality is beyond me. Can you please explain?
Sorry... I stumbled a bit there. It doesn't directly break the Back
button, but confuses a lot of people who expect clicking a link to
simply take them to a different page. I should have limited the
statement to the "potentially confusing" that follows, and the search
engine part. I know several people who get totally confused when
clicking a link takes them to a different area of the same page. It's
simply not what they expect.
Steve
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