Hi there WIll, I understand how you might have been able to label what I was saying about hyperlinks being contextual as "contextual links". But this is not what I was referring to.
I understand there are certain things called "contextual links". But my point is that all links are contextual. If they're placed within a menu/navigation that doesn't make them any less contextual, though I do understand that traditionally (old school! hah) these are referred as "non-contextual links". I hope you weren't offended by the whole "old school" thing, I was just accepting the invite! ;) By "contextual", what I actually mean is that links behave differently in different environmental contexts. And those contexts can be learnt (though they shouldn't need to be learnt). Users of the Washington Post website will eventually learn that within the given context of the Post's website, hyperlinks will act a certain way (ie lead to that page you dislike). This doesn't make them NOT a hyperlink. It makes them a non-intuitive hyperlink, because it's a new model in an unknown context. Until they learn the model, and learn the context the links are not intuitive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31271 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
