[thelist] news.com article on browsers and mainstream sites etc..

Greg Farries greg at mapleleafweb.com
Tue Jul 16 11:45:01 CDT 2002


> <rant>shouldn't those small urls be considered a negative thing
> when it comes to usability? i understand this is not a website,
> but c'mon. what if it leads to a website i have no desire to go
> to?
> from what i can tell a lot of people that actively participate
> in theList are at work and the potential for "questionable"
> material to appear on the screen goes up greatly when you follow
> a blind link.

It is proper list etiquette to notify the list if the url's content is
questionable and each url should be labeled as to where it is going. If
these two procedures are followed properly, they greatly out-weight the
negative action of cut-and-pasting long OFTEN broken urls into a browser
window.


greg
urbangruv.com





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