How to find the broken link ...
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:33 pm
That discussion about how to find the broken link when it might not be visible to the user on the page caught my attention.
Maybe I'm stupid, but why would you report a broken link on a page when the user can't click on it or see or in any way access it?
Isn't the idea to prevent bad user experience by making sure that links that someone can click on never lead to a "404 error"?
Can you help me out? Why would you consider a link that the user can't see broken, even if it points to a URL that does not exist?
Maybe I'm stupid, but why would you report a broken link on a page when the user can't click on it or see or in any way access it?
Isn't the idea to prevent bad user experience by making sure that links that someone can click on never lead to a "404 error"?
Can you help me out? Why would you consider a link that the user can't see broken, even if it points to a URL that does not exist?