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lynx-dev Re: "hidden" links (was Re: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-
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Klaus Weide |
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lynx-dev Re: "hidden" links (was Re: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html) |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:54:59 -0500 (CDT) |
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Michael Warner wrote:
> An "actual" hidden link could be like:
>
> <a ...><IMG ... ALT=""></a> (I believe)
>
> which gets picked up with "*". No ALT at all gets "[LINK]"
> as selectable text.
>
> An empty link - <a ...></a> - would be the purest form of
> hidden link.
>
> > I mean, how does someone create a hidden link and why would they do so?
> > (I presume it's not hidden in GUI browsers?)
>
> I'd think the empty anchor form would be hidden, regardless.
> I speculate they have some sort of page-maintenance
> function, but I think the others are just poor authoring
> practice, by and large.
One use for intentionally hidden links is to provide then for
search engine (and other) robots.
Klaus
- lynx-dev http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html, News Subsystem, 1999/04/17
- Re: lynx-dev http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html, Doug Kaufman, 1999/04/17
- Re: lynx-dev http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html, Louis Epstein, 1999/04/18
- Re: lynx-dev http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html, Doug Kaufman, 1999/04/17
- Re: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html [lynx-dev], Michael Warner, 1999/04/18
- Re: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html [lynx-dev], Doug Kaufman, 1999/04/18
- Re: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html [lynx-dev], mattack, 1999/04/18
- "hidden" links (was Re: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html) [lynx-dev], Michael Warner, 1999/04/20
- lynx-dev Re: "hidden" links (was Re: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html),
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Re: lynx-dev http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html, Klaus Weide, 1999/04/18