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November 1, 2011
dA Suggestion: Permalink by ~pawelabrams would simply solve a very common problem when linking to deviations - you have the wrong link because you were browsing a gallery or category.

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dA Suggestion: Permalink

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For a few months a system on dA allows us to view e.g. other deviations of the same gallery without needing to refresh the whole page. That might be a bit faster, and be more pleasant to eye (without that white blink when the page starts loading), but has a big impact on bookmarking or copy-pasting the URL shown in the address bar when we want to show someone a particular deviation. In such case, having clicked on the link or the bookmark, the user downloads the first page on which he landed to view the deviation (e.g. gallery, other work of the same artist, category), and then the deviation itself is loaded.

I know the textbox with similar facility is hidden in the Share menu, but it isn't good for bookmarking either. One must copy the address in the "Link" section, paste it in their sidebar and then bookmark it. Or click the title to be redirected to static version of the deviation page.

The other way out is to include a line in page's header:
<link rel="bookmark" href="{Permanent Deviation URL}" />
which might be good for bookmarks. This way users would still need to drop-down the Share menu to let someone know about the deviation in a more efficient way.

PS. Excuse me for my interpretation of permalink icon. I'm not a good pixel artist.

Ed. Thank you so much for the Daily Deviation! I hope this helps and dA deviations' pages would get the Permalink button (or the fav.me alias link more exposed).
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This will be really help to newer members like me. Thanks for making it. :)