Icons necessary for PDF links?

My boss asked me to alter all the pages on our website so
that links to PDF
files would be identified with an icon after each link.
In the past I put "(PDF file)" after each link, and that text
itself would
link to a descriptor page of what PDF files are. When there
were many PDF
file links on a page, I would instead notify users at the
beginning of the
page that most of the links that followed were for PDF files,
so then I
wouldn't bother adding "(PDF file)" after those links.
My boss had wanted the icon method a while back, but when I
mentioned to him
the possible clutter factor it would create on the page, he
decided we
should instead use the "title" parameter for links. So that
when you mouse
over a link to a PDF file it says " PDF File ". The spaces
were
added to create margins in the mouseover. I wasn't
comfortable with that
method for two reasons: possible misuse/abuse of an
accessiblity feature,
and also the fact that I would have to remember to tag PDF
links like that
from that point on (I have already missed a few, possibly on
purpose because
I don't see the need for the mouseover anyway).
There are currently about 250 PDF links for 1403 documents in
our site, and
while I could use find and replace, then I will still have to
sync the
entire site and then tell DW to ignore all the dupe files
that have been
gathering all these years. Not to mention I still haven't
determined the
method I will use to include a space between the end of the
link and the PDF
icon, but still prevent the icon from being "orphaned" to
it's own line,
which my boss doesn't want.
All of this work seems to go against the KISS principle that
I have been
striving for (keep it simple stupid), and I wonder about how
this custom
icon link stuff is going to turn on me in the future. I guess
this is
probably more a rant than anything. Anyone else have
experience with similar
issues? Feel free to comment or add your own client's
anti-KISS requests
here.

.oO(Mike Z)
>My boss asked me to alter all the pages on our website so
that links to PDF
>files would be identified with an icon after each link.
I sometimes use a PDF icon before the link and informations
about the
file size after it.
>In the past I put "(PDF file)" after each link, and that
text itself would
>link to a descriptor page of what PDF files are.
Is OK, even if I would most likely not always link to the
descriptor
page. Just something like
<a href="document.pdf">title</a> (PDF, 5KB)
>When there were many PDF
>file links on a page, I would instead notify users at the
beginning of the
>page that most of the links that followed were for PDF
files, so then I
>wouldn't bother adding "(PDF file)" after those links.
I would only do this if _all_ links on that page lead to
PDFs, for
example a list of documents.
>My boss had wanted the icon method a while back, but when
I mentioned to him
>the possible clutter factor it would create on the page,
he decided we
>should instead use the "title" parameter for links. So
that when you mouse
>over a link to a PDF file it says " PDF File ". The
spaces were
>added to create margins in the mouseover. I wasn't
comfortable with that
>method for two reasons: possible misuse/abuse of an
accessiblity feature,
It's rather a usability problem. Users should be able to see
immediately
if a link points to an PDF without having to "touch" each
link.
>There are currently about 250 PDF links for 1403
documents in our site, and
>while I could use find and replace, then I will still
have to sync the
>entire site and then tell DW to ignore all the dupe files
that have been
>gathering all these years. Not to mention I still haven't
determined the
>method I will use to include a space between the end of
the link and the PDF
>icon, but still prevent the icon from being "orphaned" to
it's own line,
>which my boss doesn't want.
I apply my icons with CSS:
.icon {padding-left: 21px; background: left no-repeat}
.pdf {background-image: url(/images/icons/pdf.png)}
And in the source code:
<a class="icon pdf" href="document.pdf">title</a>
(PDF, 5KB)
Micha

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