BS: Just testing blue clicky things

Subject: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Tim Salt
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 11:48 AM

click here

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Tim Salt
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 11:50 AM

Tim of Sidmouth

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Tim Salt
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 11:53 AM

Tim of Sidmouth

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Tim Salt
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 11:56 AM

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm trying to be a smart arse with blue clicky things, to link for example, to my email address. Is this possible, and if so, what is the HTML code please? Thanks . Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: wildlone
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 12:32 PM

Tim put HTML in the box on the main page marked filter, set the age to 30 days and you should get some threads that will give you what you want.
dave of Sherborne

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Tim Salt
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 02:02 PM

Thanks Dave, I'll give it a whirl.
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: MudGuard
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 05:33 PM

<a href="mailto:YourMailAddress">Send a mail to me</a>
Replace the red parts with the email address and the text your link should show,
for example:
<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Send a mail to MudGuard</a>

To link to a website:
<a href="http://YourWebAddress">Click here to go to Website</a>

for example:
<a href="http://www.mudcat.org">Click for the best Website</a>

Subject: Posting Links - examples
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 05:43 PM

OK, I give up. I've been telling people not to uxzse quotation marks in links, and to use them sparingly in HTML tags. My reason is that if you leave out the closing quotes, you make a big mess. While the quotation marks are usually optional, I have to admit that the standard practice is to include them. So, I hereby bow to standard procedure and submit these as my boilerplate examples:

<a href="http://www.mudcat.org/">Click here</a>

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]/">Click to e-mail</a>

Have I got it right?
-Joe Offer

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 05:49 PM

Joe, do the quotation marks do anything?

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 09:20 PM

Click here

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 09:24 PM

Google

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 10:41 PM

Hi, Jeri - I guess that in certain limited situations, the quotation marks do make a difference. They appear to be Standard Procedure, so I guess I should give in and stop recommending that people omit them. Trouble is, if people forget to close the quotation, the link gets messed up and the thread gets frozen. I prefer to simplify and leave 'em out. Trouble is, if I teach people to leave 'em out, I'm teaching nonstandard HTML.
Six one, half dozen on the other. Like most of life, I guess, eh?
-Joe Offer-

I'm listening to two terrific children's CD's today:
Faith Petric's Sing a Song, Sing Along
and
Never Grow Up (Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen)

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 11:08 PM

I suspect you are right Joe in that it is better to stick with standards and I suppose there is always the chance of some browser working to the standard and expecting the quotation marks.

It beats me why they are part of the standard though as a browser would know what to expect between the equals sign and the closing angle bracket with out them and the text the other side of the closing bracket is not enlosed with quotes. Perhaps there is a reason that somebody like Mudguard can explain but it does seem inconsistent to me though I am not particularly fond of HTML anyway.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: Tim Salt
Date: 23 Jan 00 - 04:01 PM

Thanks to all for your replies and especially to MudGuard and Joe for setting it all out for me.

Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Just testing blue clicky things
From: MudGuard
Date: 23 Jan 00 - 04:50 PM

Ok, here is the explanation:
Up to now I stated that the quotes are always needed. This is wrong (I said this deliberately!).

The standard does say the quotes are needed as soon as the URL contains any characters which are not letters, numbers, dot ., colon :, hash #, numbers or slash / (I think I got them all, but do not beat me if I forgot one or two characters).

Joe thinks it is better not to use quotes as bad things happen if you forget one of them. I think it is better always to use them because in certain circumstances they are needed, and if you are used not to quote you tend to forget them when they are needed. I normally use an editor which allows me to insert templates (for links, text coloring and many other things). I wrote this template to contain the quotes, so I can't forget them.

MudGuard