in-your-face URLs: please don't.

Dan,

Your website (http://www.gooddocuments.com/) seems to be full of the

	... interesting thing at
	<a href="http://www.foo.com/dir/f">www.foo.com/dir/f</a>

idiom. For example:

	(Chris also teaches journalism at Boston University --
	he has a web site at www.bu.edu/cdaly.)

	-- http://www.gooddocuments.com/philosophy/trellixdev.htm

I hope the trellix product doesn't encourage this idiom.

why not just

	(Chris also teaches journalism at Boston University --
	he has a _web site_.)

or better:


	(Chris also teaches journalism at Boston University --
	see _Chris Daly's Home Page_).


Please see:

	Avoid talking about mechanisms -- Hypertext Style Guide
	http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/NoMechanics
	ŠTim BL 1992,93,94,95

Tim, I suggest you add a paragraph about the url-in-your-face
idiom.

	If you use the original World Wide Web program,
	you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML.
	-- INTERVIEW Tim Berners-Lee 
	On Simplicity, Standards,
	and "Intercreativity" 
	http://www.w3j.com/3/s1.interview.html

I think this affects accessability; it's discussed in general
at

	http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#links

but not specifically. WCAG folks, please add something.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Thursday, 12 August 1999 10:30:08 UTC