[Design] Hyperlinks in UI

D John Anderson john at osafoundation.org
Wed Feb 7 10:57:15 PST 2007


+1

On Feb 6, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Robin Dunn wrote:

> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>
>> I presented a workaround for all of these issues: show the full  
>> URL as
>> the hyperlink. Even if there are bugs that break clicking and  
>> tabbing,
>> the user can still manually type the URL in their browser. And users
>> will immediately see where the link will go without needing to  
>> click it.
>> The only downside would be slightly less neat UI.
>
> Another idea would be to set the URL as the tool tip for the  
> hyperlink widget.
>
>
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