On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 20:32, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Brion Vibber vibber@aludra.usc.edu): <span class="newlinkedge">[</span> <a class="newlink" href="..." title="Edit 'Page title'">Page title</a> <span class="newlinkedge">]<a href="..." title="Edit 'Page title'">?</a></span>
Ick. I wouldn't want to add that much overhead on each link; it seems OK to do it for numbered headings, but not for links. I'm really quite tempted to just eliminate the "?" links, and I'm really curious if they are liked enough to justify them.
The Dutch folks explicitly requested that question links be retained as the default there. There may be some resistance.
I similarly much prefer the question-mark links.
I'm always suspicious of interface changes that are "necessitated" by technical difficulties. Laziness is a virtue of the programmer, but so is hubris. If worse comes to worst, we could always cache two versions.