[thelist] Useability/design Opinion's sought

[Chris Heilmann]

>
> On Mar 22, 2005, at 6:22 PM, e-head wrote:
>
>> I do agree with the "essence" of what that article says.
>>
>>> Most of the time, a link inside an article is there to give more
>>> information or
>>> back up an argument by linking to another source also talking in
>>> favour of
>>> it. I started to favour an email-like style "as Bob the Sheepfarmer
>>> says[1]" and have a list of links at the end of the article instead:
>>>
>>> [1] Bob the Sheep farmer talks about the crisis in the middle east:
>>> http://www.baabaa.com/bob/
>
> 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?



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