{"id":220,"date":"2009-11-17T22:36:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2021-07-01T07:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:14:29","slug":"oh-come-on-windows-you-can-do-better-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/oh-come-on-windows-you-can-do-better-than-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh come on Windows, you can do better than that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Windows,<\/p>\n<p>When people see a hyperlink, they expect to be able to click it.<\/p>\n<p>Failing that, they expect to be able to select the text and copy it.<\/p>\n<p>When the link is for Technical Support, these things become even more important.<\/p>\n<p>When the link is for <em>my website<\/em>, this sort of failure makes me cross.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-280\" title=\"Unclickable, uncopyable Support link.  Grr.\" src=\"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vista-support-link.png\" alt=\"Unclickable, uncopyable Support link.  Grr.\" width=\"609\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vista-support-link.png 609w, https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vista-support-link-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Richie Hindle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> This issue is fixed in Windows 7, so yes, it turns out that Windows <em>can<\/em> do better than that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people see a hyperlink, they expect to be able to click it.  Failing that, they expect to be able to select the text and copy it.  When the link is for Technical Support, these things become even more important.  When the link is for my website, this sort of failure makes me cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}