Re: Suggesting a tip (link/hypertext authoring)

Bonjour David.

On Oct 17, 2004, at 4:26, David Latapie wrote:
> First, I don't know if you'll get this message as I didn't find any 
> place to actually subscribe to the list.

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> I wrote a paper some time ago in French about what I consider to be 
> good practice.
> <http://blog.empyree.org/?2004/02/12/191-manuel-de-style>

First, thanks for submitting your thoughts here. In your original blog 
post you stated you weren't happy with the state of the "no click here" 
tip [1], which by all means is OK, and it's even better that you're 
also suggesting improvements. Bravo.

[1] http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere

The tip could certainly benefit from some polishing.

> And now for the submission (text then HTML version)

My main question is whether you're really suggesting adding a new tip 
for link authoring, improvements to the "no click here"... or both. 
Because the way to read and review your suggestion vary very much then.

If you're suggesting a new tip, then you need a theme, and a catchy 
one. Maybe something along the lines of "Web pages that can read like a 
book".

If you're suggesting an amendment to the existing tip, better be short. 
The tips must not get very large, and the "noclick" here is already a 
bit big - although it should be easy to make the "example" a little 
less verbose, giving more space for a good practices section between 
the "What a link means" and "An example" sections. If so, what would 
be, in a nutshell, the message you want to carry across?

Thanks,
-- 
olivier