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RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well desig
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed? |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:44:12 +0000 |
> Yes, making symbols into links that go nowhere is an awful
> design, so the lookup has to be done before the buttonizing.
No, not necessarily; not IMHO. There is no such
"has to be done". _That_ is "an awful design",
AFAICT.
Users should themselves be able to decide this.
They're the ones who should decide what "has to
be done", and when.
In the design I use (one example; I don't claim
there is no better approach):
* A user can choose to never provide such links.
* Otherwise:
. If a user doesn't want to pay a time penalty
of finding out beforehand whether a given
symbol is actually covered in (some set of)
manuals (the set being decidable by the user),
the action of the link is called out as
_checking_ for the symbol in the manuals.
IOW, the link is, in effect, a _search_ link.
. If a user wants to pay a penalty of checking
beforehand, a link is created only if a target
is known.
Your "has to" approach seems to amount to that
last possibility: no link unless we're sure it
can take you to a relevant node of a manual.
IMHO, that's the _least_ useful of all the
possibilities we can (and I do) offer users.
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, (continued)
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Drew Adams, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/23
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- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Drew Adams, 2021/02/23
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