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Ask HN: Why don't we indicate internal vs. external links?

2 pointsby nealrsover 7 years ago
Hypertext is great - but how come we don&#x27;t (in general) indicate whether links are internal or external? Sure, you can mouseover a link and check the status bar at the bottom - but that&#x27;s not very obvious for your average user.<p>Why not visually indicate whether a link is internal &#x2F; external with a glyph (::after) or a separate color (maybe orange instead of standard blue?)<p>Is anyone out there doing something like this? Do you think it&#x27;d improve the web experience?

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detaroover 7 years ago
Some sites do that (wikis being a common example), I personally never found it all that useful.<p>What benefit do you see from such an indicator?
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