Re: [Bug-gnupedia]External Links in New Window

[Christopher Mahan]

An interesting idea about external links:

If we do the internal links like this (only an example)
www.gne.org/articles?uid=123456789

can't we do the links like:

www.gne.org/external?linkid=www.yahoo.com/index.html

and have an intersticial page that says, sort of:

The link you have selected lies beyond the GNE. We are not responsible for 
its content, etc, etc, yadda yadda

- Return to the article

- Proceed to your link

I think this would be very sensible.

Also. the external links could also be given an ID, like the internal 
articles, and a script could occasionally check if the external links are 
broker, redirecting to other pages, or that sort of things. And the script 
could then email the author, and have him reestablish the correct 
resource...





> From: "Dan Geiser" <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia]External Links in New Window
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:32:03 -0500
>
> Hi, Tom,
> We weren't trying to justify including External Links as long as they were
> in a separate window.  If External Links were OK'ed I was talking about
> giving the UI the option of opening them in a separate window or not.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Geiser <address@hidden>
>
> > Linking to material external to GNE is never going to
> > work because of potential violations to the GNU
> > policy. Regardless of whether or not its a new window
> > etc it will still make GNE non-free, linking to
> > material that isnt' free.
> >
> > Tom Chance
> >
> >
> > --- Dan Geiser <address@hidden> wrote: > OK,
> > then by default they WON'T open in a new window
> > > but it's easy enough to
> > > give people the option of having External Links open
> > > in a new window or not.
> > >   In fact many webloggers just provide a check box
> > > on the page to enable or
> > > disable it.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Dan Geiser <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > >Pulp <address@hidden> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > I feel (agree?) that we shouldn't have external
> > > links as primary
> > > > > resources.  I think it would be appropriate to
> > > allow external links
> > > > > as references in articles, so long as we clearly
> > > distinguish between
> > > > > internal links and external links.  We could
> > > then make it clear that
> > > > > external links are in no way cared-for or under
> > > the umbrella of the
> > > > > GNUPedia.
> > > >
> > > >I agree. I must rant that they shouldn't open new
> > > browser windows,
> > > >though ;) I hate that.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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