Re: Where do you place the Glossary hyperlink? Phase 2 question

[Rachel Rawlings <rachel -at- scrivovivo -dot- net>]

John Posada wrote:

>In this case, I make EVERY instance hyperlinked because I cannot
>control when the developer is going to want to see the internals and
>I don't want him having to backtrack each instance to find the linked
>instance. it may not be until the third or fourth time an element is
>mentioned that he says "Hmmm...I gotta see this thing.", and I want
>the link to be available to him at that moment.
> 
>Does anyone have strong feelings about how, in this case, I link
>every mention, even if it is multiple times in a paragraph?
>  
>
How, as gut feeling for the methodology, or how to do it in terms of
technique?

I'm neutral about it UI-wise, so long as you suppress link underlining.
You have a good precedent for doing so, however, in javadoc. If this is
something you're doing for developers, they'll probably appreciate it.

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