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chromatic (983)
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http://wgz.org/chromatic/
Improve Your Writing (part 1)
Here are two sloppy writing habits that bug me today.
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Raw URLs as Link Titles
Links should be inline and should have titles fit for human consumption. Which is easier to read?
- Visit chromatic's homepage at http://wgz.org/chromatic/.
- Visit chromatic's homepage.
Of course, both are better than failing to link the URL altogether.
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Useless Summarization
I kid you not, today I ran across multiple occurrences of the following writing pattern. The topic has been changed to protect the author from public humiliation
Before you can start processing the log files, you have to understand more about hashes, which I will explain now. Hashes are....
If you weren't going to explain it, dear author, why bring it up? Since it's so important to understand, why tell the reader to pay attention to the very next sentence which, if you'd ended the current sentence in the right place, he'd be reading already?
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Raw URLs (Score:2, Interesting)
Maybe it's personal opinion or the fact that I'm stuck in a programmer's microcosm, but I don't mind raw URLs. To me, it's sometimes nice to be explicit about where a link goes. As an example of why this might be helpful, even though I didn't visit your Web site, I know where it is now (and I didn't have to hover over the link to find out).
The code that powers this site places the domain of the link's target in brackets (for comments, at least), so it seems that at least one other person agrees with me on
Re:Raw URLs (Score:1)
That's a reasonable argument. Perhaps I should have said "make links meaningful" and left it at that. On the other hand, there's much room to take advantage of the medium, especially as you can assign some semantic value to links. (See, that means using "click here" as a link title is still horribly wrong!)
Re:Raw URLs (Score:3, Informative)
And for accessibility, make links meaningful, especially when removed from the visual context of the page. This is effectively done with title attributes.
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Re:Raw URLs (Score:2)
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It depends on the format (Score:1)