---- Original Message -----
From: "Vicki Rosenzweig" <vr(a)redbird.org>
To: <wikipedia-l(a)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(a)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.