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Snip summary	Just like Information Superhighway and cyberspace, the t... hypertext seem to have dropped out of fashion. Despite t... still the foundation of the Web — one of its core feat... HTML <a> tag is the sole element that produces the hyper... plain text SitePoint » Crimes Against Hypertext http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/01/13/crimes-against-hypertext/

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Just like Information Superhighway and cyberspace, the terms hyperlink and hypertext seem to have dropped out of fashion. Despite this, hypertext is still the foundation of the Web — one of its core features. The humble HTML <a> tag is the sole element that produces the hyperlinks that change plain text into hypertext. It still surprises and annoys me when such a central feature of a web page seems to be taken for granted. Poor linking practices are common — editorially and visually — and it has a direct negative impact on usability.

HTML	Just like <em>Information Superhighway</em> and <em>cyberspace</em>, the terms <em>hyperlink</em> and <em>hypertext</em> seem to have dropped out of fashion. Despite this, hypertext is still the foundation of the Web — one of its core features. The humble HTML <code class="ref-term"><a title="Look up the <a> tag in the SitePoint HTML Reference." href="http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/a"><a></a></code> tag is the sole element that produces the hyperlinks that change plain text into hypertext. It still surprises and annoys me when such a central feature of a web page seems to be taken for granted. Poor linking practices are common — editorially and visually — and it has a direct negative impact on usability.

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Just like Information Superhighway and cyberspace, the terms hyperlink and hypertext seem to have dropped out of fashion. Despite this, hypertext is still the foundation of the Web — one of its core features. The humble HTML <code class="ref-term"><a title="Look up the <a> tag in the SitePoint HTML Reference." href="http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/a"><a></a></code> tag is the sole element that produces the hyperlinks that change plain text into hypertext. It still surprises and annoys me when such a central feature of a web page seems to be taken for granted. Poor linking practices are common — editorially and visually — and it has a direct negative impact on usability.

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