[thelist] Suggestions

Jeff Howden jeff at jeffhowden.com
Fri Jul 11 06:50:22 CDT 2003


shawn,

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> From: Shawn K. Quinn
>
> > But there are thousands of users who don't have a clue
> > as to how to do either of these. If you are interested
> > in building traffic you would be a fool not to include
> > those links.
>
> Perhaps they should learn how to use their browser then?
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unlike developers, regular computer users don't give two hoots about the
software they use so long as it seems to work for them.

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> These links typically depend on scripting, as well.
> Meaning that a user who is running a browser either
> incapable of running scripts or set not to run scripts
> (globally, or just from untrusted sources) may use one
> of these links and have no idea that it didn't work.
> The browser's own commands for these functions *always*
> works (unless there is a serious bug in the browser).
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and this is easily gotten around by simply writing out the links with script
as well.

.jeff

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