Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:57:48 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Message-ID: <1903327238.20050208115748@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEENFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <1401586003.20050206121941@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEENFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > My feeling is that if a site is extremely difficult to navigate > within - such as many news sites (ie cnn.com, etc.) that this > encourages deep linking. If the site owners don't want deep > linking then they can make their sites easier to navigate within. I tend to agree. It would be much better if these sites provided some easy way to reference specific articles, but often the only way to do so is with a 3000-character URL (and very often the URL still contains things like the session ID or user name of the person who originally pulled up the article). > Putting a 5 minute Flash presentation as the index page of a site > is guarenteed to provoke deep linking, for example. A Flash page at the entrance to a site is the number-one sign that the designer of the sign was a totally clueless newbie. I usually just leave a site that has this glaring defect. If I really need something from the site, I Google specifically on that site to find a deeper link that gets past the Flash content, or I look at the source of the Flash index page and try to find a URL that points past the entrance (although sometimes there's nothing at all--I guess blind people aren't welcome at such sites). I'm happy to say that my own site can be navigated even with lynx. Only one or two pages require any kind of scripting to work correctly. The rest will work with plain text. > Also, if you do have a decent site, and still have problems with > referring sites deep linking to you and not changing those links > when you politely request them to do so, it's pretty easy to > replace the deep link with a html page that > redirects to your site index. I've done that occasionally for deep links directly to images; I've never bothered with links to other pages. Every page contains Javascript that will reload the frames if they aren't there, just to help put any deep-linked page in its proper context (they can turn scripting off, of course, but few people do that). > Do any not? I don't know. The ones I've looked at apparently do. > If they are using it as a component of their site, then I think it does. Probably. But I just configure the server to send them an image that they really don't want to see, and they remove the link soon enough. I don't see it very often, but from time to time I'll see the logs filled with direct links from someone else's site, and then I have to do something. -- Anthony
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