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What is the difference between "linking" and "deep linking"? Whatever else W|A is, it is a web server and it responds to my requests by sending me web pages. Wh

What is the difference between "linking" and "deep linking"? Whatever else W|A is, it is a web server and it responds to my requests by sending me web pages. Why does Wolfram get to decide for me which web browser I should use to view those pages?

steveklabnik 16y ago
People that don't understand what the web is, why it's important, or how it works get mad when you link to http://www.something.com/ANYTHINGATALL They think you should _only_ ever link to http://www.something.com/ If you couldn't tell by my first sentence, I find this idea repulsive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking
- ludwigvan 16y ago
  On a slightly related note, what do you think about framing another site's contents? The original article is closer to framing in this respect, i.e. showing stuff in a UIWebView is more analogous to framing. I am currently developing a content aggregator site, but haven't decided how to link/display original articles. Should I be putting a frame at the top (or display orignal content in an iframe?) so that users don't leave my site, or should I directly link to the original article? I have strong suspicion that doing the former would be unfair, but some sites like stumbleupon do it to improve user experience.
  - steveklabnik 16y ago
    I strongly, strongly dislike stuff like the old Digg bar, or the Reddit bar. I'm assuming that's what you're talking about? http://www.reddit.com/tb/fp3vz If I'm looking at a page, I want the URL to be the URL of the page I'm looking at. Feels quite scummy otherwise. That said, feel free to do it, nobody can (or should) stop you.
    - Macha 16y ago
      On the desktop, I couldn't agree more. On a mobile device, its a handy shortcut to the pages I will most likely visit next anyway.
Someone 16y ago
It is similar to the difference between "citing" and "copying"/"plagiarizing": a gradual thing where the distinction is clear at extreme ends of the scale, but muddy in the middle.

steveklabnik 16y ago

People that don't understand what the web is, why it's important, or how it works get mad when you link to http://www.something.com/ANYTHINGATALL They think you should _only_ ever link to http://www.something.com/ If you couldn't tell by my first sentence, I find this idea repulsive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking

ludwigvan 16y ago
On a slightly related note, what do you think about framing another site's contents? The original article is closer to framing in this respect, i.e. showing stuff in a UIWebView is more analogous to framing. I am currently developing a content aggregator site, but haven't decided how to link/display original articles. Should I be putting a frame at the top (or display orignal content in an iframe?) so that users don't leave my site, or should I directly link to the original article? I have strong suspicion that doing the former would be unfair, but some sites like stumbleupon do it to improve user experience.
- steveklabnik 16y ago
  I strongly, strongly dislike stuff like the old Digg bar, or the Reddit bar. I'm assuming that's what you're talking about? http://www.reddit.com/tb/fp3vz If I'm looking at a page, I want the URL to be the URL of the page I'm looking at. Feels quite scummy otherwise. That said, feel free to do it, nobody can (or should) stop you.
  - Macha 16y ago
    On the desktop, I couldn't agree more. On a mobile device, its a handy shortcut to the pages I will most likely visit next anyway.

Someone 16y ago

It is similar to the difference between "citing" and "copying"/"plagiarizing": a gradual thing where the distinction is clear at extreme ends of the scale, but muddy in the middle.