My TrackBack
links at the bottom of each post are not like everyone else's. I don't like having to highlight and copy a URL, so I made the URL into a link that people can just right-click and copy. I was chuffed with myself until I became aware of two problems with this setup:
- People with single-button mice (i.e. Mac users) can't right-click
- The fact that my setup is non-standard (especially for MT) means that at least two people have thought the link was broken, whereas it just wasn't meant to be clicked on that way.
I don't like the standard Javascript open-window thing, but I think the not-link is causing people too many problems. I'm trying a new thing, namely adding the TrackBack URL in plain-text under the entry. I won't rebuild the whole archives, so people can still compare with older entries. What do you all think? Which way should I do it? Do you have any better suggestions?
Aquarion says:
I'm sticking to my trackback links, which look cleaner. Single-buttoners may not be able to click, btw, but they can get a context menu with click-and-hold.
Laurabelle says:
Aquarion, I agree that the links are cleaner, and I may go back to that if I ever decide to hack into MT's code and change the error message to something more helpful, i.e. At the moment all people get is in XML. Not tremendously helpful, even to someone who knows something about TrackBack and XML.
Kevin had a great idea to use something like OnClick="alert('[helpful message]');return false;" on the link to tell people what's going on, but unfortunately that applies on either right- or left-clicks. So no good solution yet.