My current solution, besides paranoid archiving for Internet links, is to exploit tool tips: so the full title & authors exists in the page, but entirely unobtrusive to readers of either the article or comments. It seems to be working out so far.
In Markdown, it goes like [displayed text](hyperlink "tooltip alt text"); in HTML I think it’s an additional argument to <a> or <href> which goes title="tooltip alt text", so for my example above:
I like this solution a whole lot. I’m late for work so I won’t search for the specific occasion but I seem to recall I’ve suggested stealing it for LW.
They are when I’m reading on a desktop or a notebook, but they’re a pain in the ass to scroll down beyond when I’m reading on a smaller device such as a smartphone.
Plenty of people complain about my long lists of references in earlier posts. :(
Maybe the best is to put the references in a comment that is linked from the end of the post.
My current solution, besides paranoid archiving for Internet links, is to exploit tool tips: so the full title & authors exists in the page, but entirely unobtrusive to readers of either the article or comments. It seems to be working out so far.
I couldn’t find this quickly: What’s the Markdown and HTML for adding tooltips?
In Markdown, it goes like
[displayed text](hyperlink "tooltip alt text")
; in HTML I think it’s an additional argument to<a>
or<href>
which goestitle="tooltip alt text"
, so for my example above:Markdown:
[paranoid archiving for Internet links](http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs “‘Archiving URLs’, gwern 2013”)
HTML:
<a href="http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs“ rel=”nofollow” title=”'Archiving URLs', gwern 2013”>paranoid archiving for Internet links</a>
This should probably be added to the official formating help page of lesswrong.
Here you go: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Comment_formatting#Link_tooltips_.2F_alt_texts_.2F_titles
I like this solution a whole lot. I’m late for work so I won’t search for the specific occasion but I seem to recall I’ve suggested stealing it for LW.
Really? I think they’re wonderful.
They are when I’m reading on a desktop or a notebook, but they’re a pain in the ass to scroll down beyond when I’m reading on a smaller device such as a smartphone.
Then don’t do that.
Seriously: I strongly suggest that our articles should be optimised for checkability and in-depth reading, not convenience on the bus.