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Some people don’t like permalinks being in the title (or at least couldn’t find them). So, permalinks are now in the title and at that handy little Permalink at the bottom of each post.
Update: No, this is not the major announcement.
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October 12th, 2005 at 10:06 am
Personally, all I have ever cared about is that the poster’s name be at the top.
I feel a need to know who is writing, just as in a verbal conversation, I need to know who is speaking.
btw, did you know that on FireFox, the right (advertisment) column still intrudes on the text by about 5 pixels?
October 12th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Is this the “major announcement” we’ve been waiting for?
October 15th, 2005 at 9:28 am
The issue isn’t so much using your title as a permalink, but being able to tell that that’s what it is. Way way back, when the web was young, hyperlinks were all underlined. That was the standard. Sometime later, Netscape (I think) introduced the UNDERLINE tag, which messed that up. Later, CSS allows you to specify various attributes for links. The main point is that any text which is a link is differentiated from other text on the page, in a way which strongly suggests that it’s a link. Bold and large type don’t do that, because by themselves, they make text look just like text would look for one of the headline tags (H1, H2, …) and so dont’ provide a visual cue that that there’s a hyperlink there.