- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:44:01 -0500
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, "Brad Kemper" <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>, "Mikko Rantalainen" <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>, www-style@w3.org, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > Before retiring as webmaster at Royal Holloway, University of London, > we certainly had disabled links in some iterations of the site. The > classic case was the need to differentiate (in a jump table menu) > between the current page (to which jumping would serve no purpose) > and the set of target pages that were not the current page. I imagine > that this is by no means rare in real life. Certainly not. You can see it on practically any website, e.g., Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history Notice how "Latest" and "newer 50" at the bottom are non-linked, as is "(cur)" for the top revision. Also, any link to the current article is automatically turned into a <span class="selflink">, which is bolded. But do these match the semantics of :disabled? :disabled implies to me that the user might take some action to enable the object. In these cases, the link is semantically unwanted under all circumstances, in the current context.
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