afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)
afuna ([personal profile] afuna) wrote in [site community profile] dw_accessibility2009-09-02 12:03 am
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Question about link text variations

I'm considering whether having two sets of standard text would be acceptable for official styles. Right now, all the entry links (previous/next/memories/track, etc) are two words or more. That makes those links somewhat difficult to work with in some layouts which have more limited space.

What I'm considering are to have the long forms as defaults, but to have a secondary set of shorter text we can encourage style designers to standardize on, for official system styles. Keeping in mind the previous entry about changing link text, do these variations work for you?

Long and short forms of entry link text
LongShort
Previous EntryPrevious
Next EntryNext
Add to MemoriesMemory
Untrack ThisUntrack
Tell SomeoneTell
Leave a commentComment
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[personal profile] snakeling 2009-09-01 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I usually change it to "Share" for myself, too.
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-09-01 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if we can change the longer version to match Share? *g* (retcon!)

One issue that was brought up is that some people do stuff programmatically/do ctrl+f to find the links, so it's good to have some common text between short and long. But like everyone else here, I can't figure out a good short form of "Tell someone", so maybe we need a good long form of "Share"...
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[personal profile] branchandroot 2009-09-01 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Share with someone"?
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-09-01 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Maybe "share entry"?

Urgh, can we just have Share for both the short and the long forms? *G*
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[personal profile] kyrielle 2009-09-02 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Share this entry"?
aveleh: Close up picture of a vibrantly coloured lime (Default)

[personal profile] aveleh 2009-09-07 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Just noting that "tell/share" is also used for whole journals, so it should (eventually) match there too.
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-09-07 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... hum. Suggestions for new text? Share doesn't seem to match journal as well as entries.
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-09-07 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
How about "Share this" or "Share link"?
aveleh: Close up picture of a vibrantly coloured lime (Default)

[personal profile] aveleh 2009-09-07 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's totally reasonable to have "share this entry" and "share this journal". I actually think it's better than to have the same text for both, since then you can build journal links on entries and comments without them being confusing. (See [livejournal.com profile] aveleh for my hackish example.)
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-09-07 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
hehe okay!
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[personal profile] sophie 2009-09-01 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Send to someone"? (or does it not send the text, but just the link? If so, that won't work)
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)

[personal profile] afuna 2009-09-06 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's just the link that's sent.
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