Make link to icons page go to the relevant icon

[susanreads]

Title:
Make link to icons page go to the relevant icon

Area:
entries and comments

Summary:
Icons on entries and comments have a link to the user's icons page. Make the link go directly to the icon that you clicked on.

Description:
The problem: Denise is hosting another discussion of what should go in alt and title attributes of icons. I can't be the only person who can see the icon but often can't tell what I'm looking at, so I want to be able to access the description, hoping it will answer the question "Who is that?" or "What does that fancy text say?" But putting that info in the alt and title so that we can see it on the mouse-over tooltip doesn't help people without mice, and might conflict with the proper use of the attributes for people using non-visual browsers. The obvious workaround is to follow the link to the icons page; that's all very well if they have 5 icons, but not so convenient if they have 105!

Proposed solution: make it easier to find the available info for a specific icon, by making the link to user.dreamwidth.org/icons go directly to the icon in question instead. You could do this by putting an anchor on each listed icon, or perhaps there's some part of the table structure that could be addressed.

Drawbacks: maybe it would make the icons page and comments pages take longer to load if there's lots of extra anchor points and calculating which one to link to? I don't think it would be much of an increase on what's there already, though.

Poll #8382 Make link to icons page go to the relevant icon

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61

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Should be implemented as-is.
48 (78.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (19.7%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.6%)

Comments

[boundbooks]

This sounds cool and would totally be something that I'd love, but I also have no idea what the potential impact on the site would be. (Thus my vote for 'Other')

[senmut]

That was what prompted me to vote Not to do it. I fear for the resource usage such a thing might entail.

[denise]

Pretty much nonexistant resource usage; it just entails including a html anchor, which is nothing.

[ciaan]

That's when I tend to vote yes if I want it, and figure the people making the site can decide whether it's doable or not.

[azurelunatic]

Makes perfect sense to me!

I think the extra load time for adding anchors (a little more text) would be miniscule compared to the load time of the existing icons.

[silverflight8]

YES. I want to see the icon, and when there's a hundred plus icons it's hard to find. I've been wanting this for ages and ages now ;)

[foxfirefey]

I think this is low hanging fruit implementation wise and makes a lot of sense.

[melannen]

dude, I never realized that link was there! \o/

[kyrielle]

I only wish I could vote for this to be implemented multiple times, because I'm nearly bouncing here. This would ROCK.

[deborah]

I'm voting for this, but by voting for this I by no means mean to endorse the idea that we will therefore not need to put the description in the title text. *Holds off on pestering about that semi-stalled discussion because honestly I don't have time to implement anything until January*