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From: Karl Groves
Date: Aug 5, 2014 12:57PM

Greg,

It depends on the use case. As Jared mentioned, there are likely to be
use cases, like Gmail, where the notifications would not only be
burdensome but unnecessary.

In other cases, it'd be very helpful.

One thing to keep in mind when providing such notifications is that
you should try to avoid being too verbose. For instance, your notice
says "This link opens in a new window". Imagine, for a moment, that
you had to listen to that. What are the *most* important words in
that phrase? IMO they're "opens new window".

This is obviously an area of high subjectivity. Some people might
argue that any kind of warning is unnecessary and they'd prefer not to
have it at all.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Greg Gamble < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thanks Karl
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> What if they were notified? Would that be acceptable?
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> For example, the links here have a hidden span tag that shows on hover :
> https://gedverify.org/contact.aspx
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> Greg
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