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Old 10-11-2017, 02:33 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Why not the full URL? You just have put the URL in the <a and use plain text to describe it and that text would be the link.
WOLFIE!

Shame on you. Never suggest that. You have any idea what it's like, to try to use a link on an eInk w/o a browser, that's an anchor link? Ixnay on that. Naked links, boys and girls, for all the good folks that use dedicated eReaders that don't have built-in browsers. This is a lecture I give my clients constantly. I once wrote to a friend of mine, whose non-fic book I read, and told him how frustrated I was to learn that I couldn't use any of his linked resources--because I had zero idea where the links went to. Nary a clue. It's not like a browser, where you can hover-over and see the link. And even if you could--what, you want to try to do that, and type a 90-character-long link into your browser?

Of all the people, Wolfie, I know you know better. You just brain-farted.

For the general public: about 40% of all eReaders out there do NOT have browsers or Net capability. If you put your reference-material, additional-content, etc., links in anchors, you are screwing your reading audience that isn't reading you on a tablet or smartphone. Don't do it.

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