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 | | From: | CB Casper | | Subject: | Link to New Window or Not | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:48:04 -0800 |
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I've been keeping track of the mission to Titan and
noticed that on the NASA website they have used a
consistent and fairly intuitive means to indicate
whether the link opens a new browser window, or goes
to the webpage directly.=20
For links that open a new window, they include a plus sign at the beginning=
of the visible link.
+ Read More
opens up a new window
Rings Around the Pole
navigates to the page
The web page that shows this is:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html
I think that this is a good convention and well
worth emulating to establish as a standard practice.
And, for those who check, NASA doesn't do it 100%,
there are a couple of goofs.
CB
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| | From: | jackb | | Subject: | Re: Link to New Window or Not | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 05:15:02 -0800 |
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| I think a standard text-not graphic-cue will evolve. The elipsis is
nice but probably already has an entrenched connotation of "more" that
is stronger than its WinMac menu/dialog connotation. I think the plus
sign, but on the right, might float to the top.
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| | From: | Mike Stockman | | Subject: | Re: Link to New Window or Not | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:31:00 -0500 |
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:48:04 -0800, CB Casper wrote:
| For links that open a new window, they include a plus sign at the beginning of the visible link.
| + Read More
| opens up a new window
The Mac OS and Windows both use ellipses on menu commands and buttons
that will open a dialog box or alert -- why not use that on Web links
that open a new window?
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