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RE: Printable character between adjacent links

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From: Jukka Korpela
Date: May 15, 2002 1:34AM

philip steven lanier wrote:

> Adjacent image-based links can unambiguously be made visually distinct
> from each other. Consider a row of circular "button"
> graphics with text or icons in them.

Yes, that's one possibility I had in my mind. Sorry for not making it clear
that borders and margins were just _examples_ of the visual presentation
features that could be used. Yet another possibility - for images that
essentially contain text - would be to use alternating background colors
that are sufficiently different.

The basic problem to avoid is having a row of links like
foo bar zap blurp more foo more bar and so on
in image format, with no obvious (and I mean _obvious_ to virtually anyone
who sees it) indication of where each link ends or even how many links there
are. A useful rule of thumb: the user should be able to recognize them as
separate links without knowing the topic or even the language used. It
happens too often that people rely on orthography like capital letters or
even recognizing _phrases_, or other "higher level protocol" issues.

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Jukka Korpela
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