[thelist] status bar removal

[Erik Mattheis]

I'd guess that seeing what a link is going to do is meaningless to the 
majority of Internet users ... like, I kinda think the concept of how 
websites are made of files on computers connected to the Internet is 
beyond Average Yusef and Jennifer Internet User, it's just "The 
Internet on my screen" - so seeing where a link will go in a site 
structure is beyond meaningless. So for those that have actually 
noticed that their status bar changes when their mouse is over a link, 
a plain language description might be better than the URI.

But if you want to impress people on thelist and similar, leave the 
status bar alone.

PS. It took me a while to find out how to spell Yusef. Yusef is one of 
the most common Muslim names, so if Bush would have changed his name 
when he got religion like Cat Stevens changed his name to Yusef Islam, 
our president would be Joe Christian.

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Tim Burgan wrote:
> but - in your comments about leaving the status bar alone,
> do you thing that including a status bar message for links 
> (onmouseover) is ok or is that unprofessional?
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Erik Mattheis
GoZz Digital
<http://goZz.com/>
Flash and ColdFusion Development
Minneapolis, MN
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