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Multiple-Target Hyperlinks for the Masses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lobby-the-slash-coders-forever dept.

DukunSakti writes "For a long time people have talked about getting browser support for multilink feature. A multilink is a link that points to more than one targets. It's useful because many times a single target is not sufficient to describe a link. Wikipedia has numerous examples of acronyms and abbreviations that expand to more than one term. Well, I got sick of waiting, and so I wrote a plugin for the excellent Wiki application PmWiki that adds the multilink feature. This is fully supported under Mozilla Firefox, but only partially under Internet Explorer."

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  1. small time story by SolusSD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this sure is a small time story for a website like slashdot. can i post up little odd-end hacks i've created? ;)

  2. Not IE compatible? Congrats, 80% ignores you. by jleq · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I may not like Internet Explorer, but it's just plain imprudent to *not* support it.
    My multilink plugin code adds full support for this feature to Firefox browsers, but only partially to any recent versions of Internet Explorer due to its CSS implementation shortcomings (full support may be upcoming if there is any users demand)
    Uhhh... try 80% of all internet users? We're not going to get the average 'net user to switch to Firefox by pissing him/her off with incompatibilities. What happens when a media item that I want to watch is only available for realplayer? I don't watch it.
  3. Better done in Markup by kalidasa · · Score: 5, Insightful
    What we need is to add multilinking to XHTML, and get Mozilla, Safari, and IE to support it.

    [a type='multilink' href='http://www.slashdot.org/defaultlinkfornon multilinkbrowsers']

    [linkoption href='http://www.slashdot.org/firstlink' title='This is the first link']

    [linkoption href='http://www.slashdot.org/secondlink' title='This is the second link']

    [linkoption href='http://www.slashdot.org/thirdlink' title='This is the third link']

    This is the text inside the link

    [/a]

    and have this appear as a small dropdown list below the link when you click the link.

  4. Re:Neither "fish" nor "flesh" by ear1grey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For a long time people have talked about self promotion on Slashdot. Self promotion its like a press release and usually involves some pet project that would most likely dwindle quietly into obscurity, but instead, has a fleeting shimmering moment in which to be globally lambasted.

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  5. Dear editors... by jlarocco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dear editors:
    If Donald Knuth, Linus Torvalds, or some other famous developer submits an article about something cool they're making, people might care. But nobody cares about some dumbass' broken firefox plugin. The advertisements here are supposed to be the banner ads, not the articles.
    Thank you.

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  6. This is useless. by clandestine_nova · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, is it *that* slow of a news day? This hack is neither well-implemented nor does it have any real use. The example the author mentioned doesn't even make sense, because links are not, and never were, supposed to work like that - they don't make sense for multiple targets, as that is a page design decision, not a DOM decision. This so-called multi-linking is silly, semantically nonsensical, and simply adds bloat to otherwise clear pages.

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