Please Link to Them!
I’ve ranted several times about how ridiculously stupid deep-linking policies are, so I was happy to find a site like Don’t Link to Us! (via xBlog)
Don’t Link to Us! links to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. The Linking Policy for Don’t Link to Us! precludes us from requesting permission to link to a site, and compels us to link directly to the targeted page (i.e., a “deep link”) rather than to a site’s home page.
Unrelated to the content of the site, notice Don’t Link to Us!’s use of the non-standard CSS property, writing-mode, which controls the writing direction for a block of content.
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dontlink.com? I refuse to help promote improper grammar. They could just as easily have registered donotlink.com, or nolinksforyou.com, or linkmyass.com, but no, they had to push their apostrophe agenda in our faces. Don’t buy what these weasels are selling. Punctuation is a ‘gateway contraction’ that leads hyphenation sprees, using singulars as plurals, and even haphazard capitalization.
We’ve made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our language - and we fall back. They assimilate entire words - and we fall back.
Not again! A line must be drawn here - this far and no farther!”
Jack on 5 Aug 02
Jack, you actually don’t need to insert <p> tags in your comments because line breaks and paragraph break tags are automatically generated. You comment made me realize that I don’t say that anywhere. I’ll be sure to include it in The Fine Print soon.
Oh and I haven’t had an opportunity to implement the resizable text and preview button yet. Hopefully I’ll get to them within the next few days. Things are pretty busy around here with moving and all.
Finally, in regards to your hidden email link comment: I love my grey text, but #999 may be a little too light. How about #777?
Joshua on 5 Aug 02
Grey is fine for anything you don’t want me to read.
I’m using IE; I can’t see the hideous line breaks. I had <p> tags only because I drafted the message in my HTML editor and needed to see the paragraph formatting - then I forgot to remove the tags upon completion. I was using my HTML editor only because there was no preview option on the web site (it’s especially important when you’re posting links in a message). D’oh!*
*Note the correct use of an apostrophe.
Jack on 5 Aug 02