Re: SPEC - Description field in WWWAnchor

Andrew C. Esh ([email protected])
Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:29:32 -0600 (CST)


On Mon, 24 Apr 1995 [email protected] wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
> > instead of seeing
> > http://www.tony.com/vrml/house.vrml
> > in the status area you saw
> > Go to Tony's House
> > It seems so much friendlier!
> I think thats the right way to go. Its an easy extension whit much effort.
> The URL message is just kryptic for the ordinary user.

The main problem with this is that if "Go to Tony's House" is all the
information you have, you can't use it to make the conversion to
"http://www.tony.com/vrml/house.vrml". You will get a lot of users lost
on the Web unless you have a simple way to allow them to save both parts
of these links. Here's an example: How easy is it to find a Web Page you
recently visited, if all you have is the <TITLE>? You can only do it if
your Bookmark List saves the real URL. I think it should be left up to
the user which one is displayed.

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