Timeline for Should a sentence ending with a URL terminate with a period?
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| Jun 12, 2019 at 13:41 | comment | added | Brandin |
"Technically, it will be a user error [to include the period]." Not exactly. Technically, the URL could literally be http://example.com/recover/TOKEN., with a a single period at the end and included in the URL proper. That would be a bad choice for a URL of course, but that would be a separate usability question.
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 7:19 | comment | added | Madalina Taina | google.com. works just fine and you can use a different color for the url... | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 8:00 | comment | added | msh210 | Related: writers.stackexchange.com/q/10229 | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 21:38 | comment | added | Shash | I think the sentiments on Quroa from Facebook's Content Strategist regarding the UX implications of 'voice' from the site are a far better answer than what is 'technically' correct, which honestly nobody cares about... qr.ae/1YgZs #gramRskewl | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 15:31 | history | edited | Zelda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 4 characters in body
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| Dec 24, 2011 at 13:40 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @charles this does not belong on english.se; to be honest I'm not quite sure it is a perfect fit anywhere but I think it's an OK fit on this site. It's almost a technical copywriting question IMHO. | |
| Dec 23, 2011 at 14:10 | comment | added | Ulrich Schwarz |
If you can't win, cheat: "go visit http://www.foo.bar/path#." Having a non-existing anchor is harmless AFAIK, and it doesn't matter if the client is clever enough to figure out where the URL ends.
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| Dec 22, 2011 at 5:07 | answer | added | veryfoolish | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 3:25 | answer | added | B Seven | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 16:50 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Actually, while English.SE may have useful things to say about punctuating around URLs, it's still a UX issue. For example, does rewriting the sentence so it doesn't end with the URL make it harder for the user to get to the link? I don't know; I'm just throwing it out there that grammatical solutions and UX solutions might not match 1:1. | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 5:33 | answer | added | alfa64 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 0:42 | comment | added | Charles Boyung | This definitely is not a UX issue. However, it would be perfect for the English SE site. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 22:47 | comment | added | Phil | If that's the biggest UX problem you're facing, I envy you ;) | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 21:01 | answer | added | Harish | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 20:32 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @Ivan, see my comment here for why "click here" is bad: ux.stackexchange.com/a/15249/5400 . | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 20:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/149223467043135488 | ||
| Dec 20, 2011 at 19:50 | answer | added | msh210 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 19:43 | comment | added | Ivan |
As for me, I'd either omit (or avoid) the comma or put the link into quotes like ... follow this link: "http://example.com/recover/TOKEN". or just use the word "this" as an anchor for the hyperlink (or replace "follow this link" it with "click here" and make "here", or the whole "click here" a hyperlink).
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| Dec 20, 2011 at 16:59 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | When I have to end a sentence with a URL I put a space between the URL and the period. It may not be perfect English style, but it completely avoids the problem of the period possibly being picked up (either by the mail client on click or by the user on cut/paste). | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 16:42 | answer | added | James Cronen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 16:13 | comment | added | Zelda | Sentences end in periods. A URL in a "clause" all on its own is not a sentence. Note that single sentence bullet points usually don't terminate in periods either. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 15:26 | comment | added | Simon Richter | Your token parser could silently remove a trailing period. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 14:09 | answer | added | PhiLho | timeline score: 52 | |
| S Dec 20, 2011 at 12:40 | history | suggested | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited title, body. usage, grammar, deleted words not relevant to question.
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| Dec 20, 2011 at 12:39 | comment | added | Kris | It depends on what you mean by 'illiterate phrasing'. | |
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| Dec 20, 2011 at 12:33 | answer | added | Lèse majesté | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 11:41 | answer | added | Roger Attrill | timeline score: 165 | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 11:33 | answer | added | Kris | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 11:19 | history | asked | sharptooth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |