wiki theme - external links

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

* Dan McGarry:
> Craig Box wrote:
>>
>> When you don't have http:// in your links, I think it is important
>> (from a
>> wikignome sense) to keep track of which links will leave the site, and
>> which
>> will not.  However, "J Random User", looking at the site will just see
>> underlined links, which they expect to take them to "a different page"
>> - so
>> I'm not sure that we would be breaking expected behaviour.
> 
> Seconded. From a usability perspective, there are a couple of good
> reasons to differentiate between internal and external links, not the
> least of which is that most people don't look at the status bar to see
> what the actual URL is. There's also the issue of multiple Ubuntu sites,
>  and their association to this one.

This is true. However I think the ugliness of having an icon for the
external link outweighs this usability point myself.

For example the first list here is very ugly:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community

I have looked through some of the other themes for moin and several of
them do not include an icon for external links. And if you think about
it, most websites do not dress up external links either, so we wouldn't
be breaking anything.

So I think it would be worth removing the icon completely.

Matt
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