---- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki Rosenzweig" vr@redbird.org To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] article length and fragment identifiers/pointers (Re: HTML tag)
At 07:03 AM 3/5/03 +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
As I recall, the primary argument against anchors is that they support and encourage long pages.
Very long pages are bad, but pages up to 20 or 30 KB are perfectly okay and there fragment links (#fragment) are very useful. Short articles suffering from the fact that they are often nothing more than a list of pointers to other articles (internal and external) ;)
The point is fragment links drive the user to the desired part of the article. You only perhaps need read a little bit of the little article ( 2 or 3 lines ) to obtain a system idea of something that is in various articles. The reusability argument is important.
Regards.