Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitweb: Show trailing slash when listing tree entry in tree listing

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:38:41PM -0700, Luben Tuikov wrote:

> The interesting point here is that people with zero and high
> computer exposure tend to click on the file name to obtain it.
> Only people with some computer exposure start to "think" and
> "figure it out" and fail to intuit to naively point at the
> file name to get the file. 
> 
> So this is 2/3 to 1/3.

2/3 to 1/3 if you're counting categories, but you haven't presented any
evidence that the number of people in each category is the same.

Besides which, I think that people with a high degree of exposure to the
web tend to look for the things that look like buttons or links. The
near-universal sign for links on the web is underlining (and typically
an alternate color). Looking at the repo.or.cz file lists, I see that
none of the files is highlighted but the directories are. What am I to
guess (either by intuition or by "figuring it out") except that there is
some difference between clicking the two? I think we are failing a
consistency test.

-Peff