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diff --git a/about/faq.html b/about/faq.html index 29b8a37..1bab7e9 100644 --- a/about/faq.html +++ b/about/faq.html @@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ <p>A lot of people might prefer a BSD or GNU style license for their code and I agree that there are many cases where <em>that</em> is the preferred option. But it doesn't make sense for me; at least not for a homepage like this. I'm not sure about other people, but most of my ideas are not my own; they come from reading a history book or doing a textbook exercise or an off-color joke. So without getting on a soapbox, I guess you can say the idea of "intellectual property" never made too much sense to me in general.</p> <p>I get that people have to get paid. I get that people are afraid of someone else taking credit for their work. But for this site at least, I guess I just don't really care. If someone really finds some way to profit of some random guy's Linux tutorials and unqualified thoughts on the world I honestly think <em>they</em> deserve the credit not me. I have no idea how I'd do that; I'm not sure I'd even want to waste my time with all the marketing nonsense of the modern web. And on the second point, if someone "steals" my work it's not exactly hard to figure out it was published here first--a Google search will prove that. But even if that weren't the case, I still wouldn't mind. I'd be glad that this stuff is useful at all. That would be a nice surprise.</p> <p><em>Not</em> everything that is <em>linked</em> to on this site falls under the same guidelines, so be sure to respect that author's copyright; I tend to link stuff that is generally pretty free to use, though.</p> +<h3 id="why-dont-you-highlight-urls-you-dinosaur">Why don't you highlight URLs you dinosaur?</h3> +<p>Because I think it's kinda deceiving. It's one thing to highlight a word that leads to a place, since the user doesn't have expectation of where it's going to lead, they'll tend to hover to see where it's going. A full URL looks like it's going exactly where it's going. A user won't think twice about clicking on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ">https://facebook.com/</a>. They will if they see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ">totally not a virus</a>. If you're giving out the full URL anyway why bother linking it? Every browser in the world has double-click (or long-press) to highlight the URL automatically, then right-click, and open in new tab.</p> |