Re: newbie link question-An Addition

I was thinking one additional thing last night and forgot to add it. If you
are generating your help from scratch (a nightmare thought for me--my
largest project had over 400 topics (topic=HTML file), including popups,
links, definitions, etc), ditch the spaces. Just remember to make sure that
if you edit one, you edit them all--that all the hrefs and the files they
refer too share the same "name."

Andrew


----- Original Message -----
From: "Elisa Ma" <ema(at)oblix.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 3:04 PM
Subject: newbie link question


>
> I'm a writer who inherited a web-based Help system, and I'm learning as
> I go. I just discovered this list, and here's my question:
>
> Does anyone out there know of any problems created by using spaces in
> hypertext
> links? There's a *very* good tech support person on staff here who
> thinks that
> this can create problems. My contacts in Engineering and QA don't
> think that it will.
>
> Our customers will deploy our new the product in an extranet
> environment, where
> cross-platform compatibility is quite important.
>
> Since I'm in charge of Help, I want to be certain that I make the right
> decision
> at this point - do I edit out all existing spaces in hypertexts link of
> the
> Help system that I inherited? Do I observe a "no space" rule in the new
> Help
> files?
>
> Thanks for all your assistance.
>
> Elisa Ma
>

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