[pmwiki-users] Re: Visble anchors (Re: FAQ Page Layout)

chr at home.se chr at home.se
Thu Aug 4 12:27:23 CDT 2005


On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Neil Herber wrote:

> At 2005-08-04  06:49 PM +0200, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
> >So in short, I think the FAQ should have visible anchors. As for a link
> >that goes back to the TOC, that's useful for those people who don't feel
> >like pressing the HOME key... :-)
> 
> If the FAQ has a TOC, then the link that the TOC provides points directly 
> to the (invisible) anchor. In Firefox under Windoze, you can right-click on 
> a link and select "Copy Link Location" which you then paste into the email. 
> I hope that all other browsers work the same way.
>
> Having a visible anchor does not provide this facility - rather, it lets 
> the reader see where the anchor is. (Unless I grossly misunderstand visible 
> anchors). In a FAQ, the target will always be the question, so a visible 
> anchor is just redundant page decoration.

I think you misunderstand the visible anchor... Assume I've found a
suitable answer in an FAQ that has lots of questions. Now I need the URI
of this answer. Since I needed to actually read the answer, it's right in
there in the browser window. There is also the *visible* anchor just to
the left of the question, where the visible anchor is actually a link that
points to this question. Now I can just use Copy Link Location to get the
URI of question. Otherwise I have to:

* Go to the TOC
* Search the TOC for the item pointing to the question/answer I was 
  just looking at
* Copy Link Location ...

See here for instance http://wiki.lyx.org/SiteTest/VisibleAnchors

Btw, Opera also has Copy Link Location although it's name is slightly 
different IRCC. I really hate using IE because it doesn't have this...

> I don't use the home key or TOC-link, I spin my scroll wheel! ;-)

You get a sore finger doing that when you have a loooong FAQ :-)

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr






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