good <ulink> practice

[Tammy Fox]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:53 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> We had a discussion today, and decided that this is the best method for
> using <ulink>:
> 
> <ulink url="http://www.apache.org"/>
> 
> This makes the link text be drawn from the URL attribute, in both online
> and print versions.  This way the URL is not lost, as it would be in
> this method:
> 
> <ulink url="http://www.apache.org">Apache Foundation website</ulink>
> 
> - Karsten


Lost in what sense? When it is printed? If so, the way we work around
this for the magazine is to have a print CSS that prints the URL in
parentheses after the link. Thus, you get the best of both worlds--nice
readable links in web format and printed URLs for printouts.

Tammy