Re: The "here" problem

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

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In-reply-to: Kenneth Chang's message of Tue, 3 Aug 1993 15:59:44 -0700 <9308032259.AA24055@troon.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: The "here" problem
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
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Date: 	Tue, 3 Aug 1993 16:15:34 PDT
Status: RO

I'll be the second to wail that not all users 'click' to select a
hypertext node. I've used WWW on a Liveboard (pen-based input), and
we've at least thought about speech input, as well as, of course, the
linemode browser.

Please, web-spinners, even if you want to make your pages pretty for
XMosaic users, make them *usable* for those with other mechanisms of
input.

One place where 'click here' seems to be appropriate might be in the
online documentation for XMosaic itself. Unfortunately, people look to
the 'home pages' not only for online help, but also examples of good
style. Instead of:

    <A HREF="link">Click here</A> for more information. 


Just:
    <MENU> <LI> <A HREF="link">More information.</A> </MENU>

might be preferable.