RobinZ comments on Over-encapsulation - Less Wrong

18 Post author: PhilGoetz 25 March 2010 05:58PM

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Comment author: RobinZ 25 March 2010 07:18:29PM 0 points [-]

I've seen quite a few pleas from webcartoonists that hotlinking was costing them significant sums - it's one of those things which isn't obvious from the consumer side.

Comment author: cupholder 25 March 2010 07:31:35PM *  2 points [-]

Oh, yes; the no hotlinking - i.e. no inlining with <img> tags - norm I'm familiar with, but the idea of refraining from <a>-type links is new to me.

(Edit: ohhh, you are refering to hotlinking. Sorry. I jumped into this subthread after seeing some of its comments on the Recent Comments page, rather than from reading the full context. I had thought the several of you were refering to <a>-linking rather than <img>-inlining because I hadn't read PhilGoetz's top-level post. Having looked at it now, I see that he did actually inline the images rather than just linking to them. So my comments don't make sense...but I'll leave them up for transparency's sake.)

Comment author: RobinZ 25 March 2010 07:37:53PM 2 points [-]

So my comments don't make sense...but I'll leave them up for transparency's sake.

Thank you!