[jcarreiro]

What is the difference between "linking" and "deep linking"? Whatever else W|A is, it is a web server and it responds to my requests by sending me web pages. Why does Wolfram get to decide for me which web browser I should use to view those pages?

[steveklabnik]

People that don't understand what the web is, why it's important, or how it works get mad when you link to

    http://www.something.com/ANYTHINGATALL

They think you should _only_ ever link to

    http://www.something.com/

If you couldn't tell by my first sentence, I find this idea repulsive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking

[ludwigvan]

On a slightly related note, what do you think about framing another site's contents? The original article is closer to framing in this respect, i.e. showing stuff in a UIWebView is more analogous to framing.

I am currently developing a content aggregator site, but haven't decided how to link/display original articles. Should I be putting a frame at the top (or display orignal content in an iframe?) so that users don't leave my site, or should I directly link to the original article? I have strong suspicion that doing the former would be unfair, but some sites like stumbleupon do it to improve user experience.

[steveklabnik]

I strongly, strongly dislike stuff like the old Digg bar, or the Reddit bar. I'm assuming that's what you're talking about?

    http://www.reddit.com/tb/fp3vz

If I'm looking at a page, I want the URL to be the URL of the page I'm looking at. Feels quite scummy otherwise.

That said, feel free to do it, nobody can (or should) stop you.

[Macha]

On the desktop, I couldn't agree more. On a mobile device, its a handy shortcut to the pages I will most likely visit next anyway.

[Someone]

It is similar to the difference between "citing" and "copying"/"plagiarizing": a gradual thing where the distinction is clear at extreme ends of the scale, but muddy in the middle.