Re: Period at the end of a link or not?

[J Wermont <jwermont -at- sonic -dot- net>]

SB wrote:

 > We are writing a "Getting Started Guide". There are a couple of sentences
 > with long links: i.e., to download XYZ, you can do it from here (of couse we
 > don't write here because it is a pdf and because we want the user to see the
 > path even if it is long).
 > 
 > My colleague thinks it should have a period at the end of the link to make
 > it a sentence and to be grammatically correct. Is this truly a grammatical
 > sentence? Here is an example. Period or no period?

Wouldn't adding a period at the end of a link change the link, and make
it invalid? That is, isn't

   http://www.xxx.com/blah 

different from

   http://www.xxx.com/blah.

? When the browser tries to load the latter, it would get a 404 error,
I would think.

Joyce
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