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This. Websites are supposed to distinguish internal and external links. It makes it way easier to now what kind of information we will be getting when clicking.
by yoha 13y ago
This. Websites are supposed to distinguish internal and external links. It makes it way easier to now what kind of information we will be getting when clicking. My first thought is for a blog [1] which does it pretty well: (internal links are underlined.
[1] http://www.bortzmeyer.org/ http://www.bortzmeyer.org/ (fr)
(I could not think of an English-speaking website with a similar differentiation right away)
Edit: just look at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_news
- xentronium 13y agoWikipedia (and mediawiki in general) distinguishes between internal wikilinks and external links.
- yoha 13y agoGood point. Or I'm pretty dumb. Or both.
- tragic 13y agoWikipedia does. But really, the status bar hover thing in every browser since IE5 is more than enough for me to work out where a link is going to go. (Guess it's not so useful on mobile.)
- aestra 13y agoThe funny thing is on mobile I long press to see where a link is going to go. I do this all the time. On Dolphin long press gives you the link at the top (usually truncated though) then a list of options like "open in new tab" "open in background" "save link" etc. It just seems important to me to see where a link is going to go for whatever reason.
- bmm6o 13y agoWebsites are supposed to distinguish internal and external links. Supposed to according to whom? That seems to be far from a universal custom. And if it's important, the browser can do it.