[Pmwiki-users] link icons
Jonathan Scott Duff
duff
Fri Jul 23 14:31:27 CDT 2004
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:06:50PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:57:41PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > > But only the ? is a link? Give the user a bigger target to aim at and
> > > make the whole text a link. Making the link to create a page so small
> > > doesn't exactly encourage authors :-)
> >
> > Excellent point. Comments from others?
>
> Exactly my point.
>
> I'd also go for a completely linked phrase, marked somehow that it is
> something special. I am not sure which of the existing ones I liked, so
> I've added
>
> Superscripted '+' to specify "needs to be added", entire phrase linked.
I like it sort of. What about a superscripted + on both sides of the
text?
> I don't like the "bracketed ones" either using angle quotes or floor
> brackets or similar, because they stop my reading.
Really? Why is that? I like the guillemets and other delimiters as
they are visually distinct even when the user has done something
foolish with their preferences. :-) (Rally the admins! Thwart the
users! ;-)
> I have a similar problem with the faint box around the link. Though not
> as bad :).
The faint boxes seem to bother me too, though the floor brackets are
fine.
> An additional suggestion is to add a title to those links specifying
> that the page needs to be created.
Yes, that would be nice.
-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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