Tim BL on HTML
December 4th, 2002 1:41 AM
Refreshing advice from 1992, Style Guide for Online Hypertext:
«Don’t refer in your text to facets of particular browsers. Asking someone to “click here” won’t make sense without a mouse, just as asking someone to “select a link by number” will betray the fact that you were using the line mode browser. Just leave a link. The instructions get boring as the user will normally know how to select a link.»
Also, from the same document:
«Keeping on the subject of discourse rather than the mechanisms and protocols keeps the text shorter, which means people are more likely to read it.»