[LINK] The bad guys have won

[Ivan Trundle]

On 01/09/2008, at 12:54 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> I can speak for the Mozilla suite of email and browsers: when you  
> hover over
> a link, you can see the link target in the status bar. This is  
> platform
> independent.
>
> This really is Browsing 101 stuff. Users need to be taught that  
> there are
> two parts to a link:
>
> <a href=reallink>text</a>
>
> "reallink" is the actual URL of where you will wind up. You will  
> only see
> it if your browser or email client allows you to hover and view it  
> in the
> status bar or similar. Or if you  read the actual HTML code, i.e.  
> "view source".
>
> "text" is what you see in your browser and email client, and is what  
> is used
> to fool the naive user, like me in one case ;-(
>
> The two are in no way related to each other, other than the fact  
> that they
> are part of the one HTML incantation.

Or just use Pine or any other ancient but text-based mail client that  
doesn't try to be smart and parse the link for you... :~)

iT