Hoi, For whatever reason there is this silly sign that should indicate that a link is external.
It is a silly thing for two reasons: *It does not show itself in an IE browser *When it is used in a language that is left to right like Arabic or Hebrew, it insists on being on the right side of the word in effect blocking out the first character.
Could we PLEASE get rid of this silly thing. And if someone insists on keeping it, could it be fixed so that it behaves properly ...
Thanks, GerardM
I think the point is to make it more obvious that if you click this link you are leaving Wikipedia, so they won't think content they come accross in another site is wikipedia's. I personally don't feel strongly either way about this but I think it has its merits.
John (the Ludraman)
On 10 Dec 2004, at 15:53, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, For whatever reason there is this silly sign that should indicate that a link is external.
It is a silly thing for two reasons: *It does not show itself in an IE browser *When it is used in a language that is left to right like Arabic or Hebrew, it insists on being on the right side of the word in effect blocking out the first character.
Could we PLEASE get rid of this silly thing. And if someone insists on keeping it, could it be fixed so that it behaves properly ...
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:55:05 +0000, John Collison john@collison.ie wrote:
I think the point is to make it more obvious that if you click this link you are leaving Wikipedia, so they won't think content they come accross in another site is wikipedia's. I personally don't feel strongly either way about this but I think it has its merits.
John (the Ludraman)
The color difference should be sufficient, which is why I have removed the icon in my settings. Unfortunately, it still puts some space in place of the icon. I believe we already had a vote on this though.
On 10 Dec 2004, at 15:53, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, For whatever reason there is this silly sign that should indicate that a link is external.
It is a silly thing for two reasons: *It does not show itself in an IE browser *When it is used in a language that is left to right like Arabic or Hebrew, it insists on being on the right side of the word in effect blocking out the first character.
Could we PLEASE get rid of this silly thing. And if someone insists on keeping it, could it be fixed so that it behaves properly ...
Thanks, GerardM _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:43:05 -0600, Dori slowpoke@gmail.com wrote:
The color difference should be sufficient, which is why I have removed the icon in my settings.
Funnily enough, I tend to the opposite view: I find interwiki links (some of which are actually just external links typed with a shortcut - e.g. [[Wiki:WikiHistory]], [[acronym:FUBAR]], [[Google:wibble]]) are too hard to distinguish from internal links, because they *don't* have an icon, and the colour difference is rather subtle. But I guess that's a matter of personal preference (although a clearer distinction between inter-mediawiki links and other links entered using interwiki syntax might be sensible)
On Dec 10, 2004, at 7:53 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
For whatever reason there is this silly sign that should indicate that a link is external.
It is a silly thing for two reasons: *It does not show itself in an IE browser
This is not a valid argument.
*When it is used in a language that is left to right like Arabic or Hebrew, it insists on being on the right side of the word in effect blocking out the first character.
Some effort has been expended in the past to make this work correctly. Please provide some more details (such as which browsers and browser versions on which operating systems are affected) and we'll see what we can do.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Friday 10 December 2004 16:53, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
*When it is used in a language that is left to right like Arabic or Hebrew, it insists on being on the right side of the word in effect blocking out the first character.
Also, I'm quite certain, in these languages the arrow should point to the left.
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