Two Things
Mar. 24th, 2003 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coalescentRegistering a personal domain name: Quite cool, or a bit pointless?
Also: The way I deal with links. If you've clicked on any of the links in my entries, you'll have noticed that they open in a new window. Now, I know that popups are Bad; but I find that if I'm browsing something with multiple links, I vastly prefer that they auto-open in a new window (as long as they all target to the same window, which is what I do with mine). That way, I can read through the original text in one window, and open each link in a second window as I come to it with a minimum of fuss. What I want to know is, does anyone else prefer this, or do you all find my links intensely annoying?
Also: The way I deal with links. If you've clicked on any of the links in my entries, you'll have noticed that they open in a new window. Now, I know that popups are Bad; but I find that if I'm browsing something with multiple links, I vastly prefer that they auto-open in a new window (as long as they all target to the same window, which is what I do with mine). That way, I can read through the original text in one window, and open each link in a second window as I come to it with a minimum of fuss. What I want to know is, does anyone else prefer this, or do you all find my links intensely annoying?
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Date: 2003-03-24 07:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-24 08:10 am (UTC)rea.com is possibly not available though.
i also wish to envy you if you did indeed go and see the mad capsule markets.
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Date: 2003-03-24 08:29 am (UTC)Envy away. Entry to follow later. :-)
I still can't get my head around your having more than one user icon. It's not right.
preview is a handy tool
Date: 2003-03-24 08:34 am (UTC)oh bum. i'd known for months that they were playing, but kept forgetting when. then we made plans to go the cinema completely oblivious to the fact that the band were in town that night.
I still can't get my head around your having more than one user icon. It's not right.
i live to perturb. actually, i can't get my head around it either which is why i rarely actually use anything other than the lovely default ken. you gotta love the ken.
Ooo...I like your new pic!
Date: 2003-03-24 09:03 am (UTC)Remind me not to invite you to an Audition ... and please please please don't say 'prin prin prin prin'
:-)
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Re: Ooo...I like your new pic!
Date: 2003-03-24 09:28 am (UTC)Re: Ooo...I like your new pic!
Date: 2003-03-24 12:43 pm (UTC):-)
Incidentally, I'm finding it remarkably difficult to acquire 'Ichi the Killer' and even 'Battle Royale' on DVD hereabouts. Surprising really.
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Date: 2003-03-24 07:37 am (UTC)Personal domain -- well, I've got poppyfields.net but I've had it for over six years now and I was originally going to use it for something more serious than the almost-vanity-domain that it is now. Depends what it is and what you're going to use it for, I guess.
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Date: 2003-03-24 07:38 am (UTC)Plus - I have a personal domain name (in fact, at one point I think I had four, back when I couldn't decide which one to use), so I may not be in the best position to comment on your first question.
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Date: 2003-03-24 07:39 am (UTC)Tabs are the greatest thing in the world ever. Well, the browsing world.
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Date: 2003-03-24 08:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-24 09:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-24 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-24 09:22 am (UTC)As for Macs, I use Safari which is OS X only and littlecurlything button and click. It's the prettiest broswer ever incidentally.
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Date: 2003-03-24 09:30 am (UTC)I don't have a mouse. I have a laptop.
And I don't have the option of using Safari here, however nice it may be. Unless I persuade the whole company...
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Date: 2003-03-24 10:51 am (UTC)Anyway, I presume there is a tabbed browser for OS 9. Mozilla should be available if nothing else.
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Date: 2003-03-24 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-24 09:25 am (UTC)Oh, and to Niall: multiple windows. Good thing. I almost always link using target="_blank", have done for a while, don't plan on changing that habit.
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Date: 2003-03-24 09:33 am (UTC)It's interesting. There seems to be a definite split in attitude on this issue...to be honest, I didn't expect so many in favour of multiple windows. I'm more used to my friends preaching the One True Way of the user defining all his browsing preferences.
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Date: 2003-03-24 10:35 am (UTC);o)
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Date: 2003-03-26 04:45 am (UTC)I'm sure it's significant that all of us truckstoppers prefer multiple windows, whereas those I think of as favouring 'proper' practices (for want of a better phrase) dislike them...
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Date: 2003-03-24 07:46 am (UTC)New Window? Yes.
Sorted :)
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Date: 2003-03-24 07:47 am (UTC)Registering a personal domain is very useful if you want a permanent email address that isn't dependent on your ISP and which doesn't end in something lame like "hotmail". Again - if you want a web page for any reason it's going to be easier to remember and look a bit more professional if it's not sitting on someone else's server in a subdirectory.
My provider is based in America and isn't the cheapest around but I find it very handy as I have shell access there as well - all my email is held on that server, including old filed stuff. This means that wherever I am I can SSH into the space and have access to it. I can store files there for the same reason. I find it extremely useful, others might think it a waste of money.
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Date: 2003-03-24 08:39 am (UTC)See, that's what I do most of the time (or rather, I shift-click. Keyboard shortcuts are The Way Forward). The problem is, it opens a new window every time, which I find annoying. I don't know of a way to 'open in existing window that is not this window'.
Is there a way to set the default browsing preference to 'always open in current window' at your end that would override my settings? Not that I'm saying you should have to, I'm just curious.
I'm not sure what the best solution is. Based on comments from others here, it sounds like what would be most popular is the specification 'open in new tab if available, else open in existing window named [whatever], else open in new window named [whatever], unless otherwise specified by the user'. But I have no idea how to turn that into HTML...
shift-click short-cuts
Date: 2003-03-24 11:08 am (UTC)Mmmm.
Re: shift-click short-cuts
Date: 2003-03-24 12:57 pm (UTC)Well, in IE5, shift-click (apple-click on a Mac) opens the link in a new window by default. If that isn't working for you, I'm afraid I can't help; I don't know how to configure buttons.
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Date: 2003-03-24 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-24 08:43 am (UTC)This is why I always target my links to the same window - the theory being that (a) you'd only ever have two windows and (b) for reading link-dense text, two windows is better than one. I appreciate that (b) is up for debate (and that I'm not often that link-dense), which is why I asked.
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Date: 2003-03-24 03:24 pm (UTC)I appreciate that you're thinking about it and trying not to be irritating but I think you're engineering something that users can do by themselves if they're sufficiently bothered. Well, almost. No, they can't make everything load into window X but then if they're going to lose the current contents of X in your way they might as well close it. What if they specifically WANT to keep the content of window X in the background and then choose to click another of your links? Blip, it's gone.
I have to admit, though, I don't think I've ever clicked on any of your links and if I have I've not noticed that it appeared in an extra window. But in general I prefer to have the control myself.
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Date: 2003-03-26 04:12 am (UTC)Lots, but personally, I'd be much happier with things that way. I find multiple windows much friendlier than keeping a handle on the history. And apart from anything else, I can be reading one page whilst another loads in the background.
We seem to be coming from different browsing paradigms. :-)
users can do by themselves if they're sufficiently bothered. Well, almost
And, inevitably, it's the 'almost' that gets me. I've been known to use my journal as a personal links-reference, and just got bored of shift-clicking all the time.
What if they specifically WANT to keep the content of window X in the background and then choose to click another of your links?
They can use 'open in new window' to override my settings, surely?
What I still haven't been able to find is whether there's a shortcut for 'open in same window' that works as an override.
I think I'm going to keep doing things as I have been for now (since at least as many people have said they prefer it as said they dislike it), but investigate more. Thanks for the comments, though.
Well...
Date: 2003-03-24 08:33 am (UTC)gubbins.net has been mine for at least 5 years. Domain good, spam bad, that's pretty much the size of it.
Re: Well...
Date: 2003-03-24 08:42 am (UTC)sorry, icon just too tempting!
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Date: 2003-03-24 08:52 am (UTC)That and it's an amusing URI to own...
re: personal domain
Date: 2003-03-24 09:05 am (UTC)Who has the time for websites anyway? :-)
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Date: 2003-03-24 11:18 am (UTC)and personal domain names rock. Also mine was insanely cheap (just over a fiver for two years) and gives me somewhere to forward mail to when my main uni account dies in just over a year.
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Date: 2003-03-24 01:36 pm (UTC)No to new windows.
Date: 2003-03-27 04:15 pm (UTC)As for the domain, well, if you feel like it, go for it. But use a sensible TLD/SLD like .org, .org.uk or .me.uk. Anything else is just criminal. (Oh, and the answer to your question will be yes :)
Dom (http://dom.magd.ox.ac.uk/diary.shtml).