From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 18:03:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C112F16A4CF; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:03:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.67.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E3243D2F; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:03:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1Co3tJ-000GsQ-Hm; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:03:45 +0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:03:45 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Eric Kjeldergaard Message-ID: <20050110180345.GC49329@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Eric Kjeldergaard , Chris Zumbrunn , Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-www@freebsd.org, "Simon L.Nielsen" References: <736EAA55-5B8B-11D9-ACB2-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <20050102110732.GB861@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050103232207.GA44980@gothmog.gr> <9FC79942-5DE3-11D9-BEAB-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <20050108144127.GA75006@sumuk.de> <8B30EFDE-6195-11D9-A996-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bXVaen7Op4LYXSUn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: "Simon L.Nielsen" cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:03:48 -0000 --bXVaen7Op4LYXSUn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:17:01PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > >> The html versions are now available from the following URLs: > > >> > > >> http://top.ch/sitedata/freebsd/freebsdweb1e.html > > >> http://top.ch/sitedata/freebsd/freebsdweb2e.html > > >> > > >> How does that look? > > > > > > I like it, but there are things I don't like: > > > > > > Removing underlines from hypertext links makes > > > it impossible to tell wether a heading in the > > > navigation columns is a link or not. We could > > > require that all elements of the navigation > > > are links, but I would like links in the running > > > text to show normal behaviour (underlined and blue). > >=20 > > Modifications should probably go in the direction of removing the links > > on section titles in the navigation bars, so that the blue color will > > serve as a consistent identifier for links. If it's blue, it's a link. > > If it's not blue, it's not a link. >=20 > Something we do a lot at my workplace (web development firm, mostly) > is to have underlines on rollovers and (on some sites unselected, > depending of course on user preference). I would prefer to not see > the blue underlined if we could avoid it. Of course with the modern > css technology, it's not an issue because any user that wants blue > underlined links (vision impairment, personal preference, etc) can > override the link colour via his/her client. I am sure that people with vision impairment would love to mess around trying to edit a custom stylesheet because you don't like blue anchors. I quite like the rest of this patch, but removing the underline from links is evil. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --bXVaen7Op4LYXSUn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB4sOBocfcwTS3JF8RAg93AJ0VwlDHLzfWhBvKqjJMFhGoibsvcgCeJ1WF i+IhBwP0xEQ3q60octkg5LQ= =Yd5R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bXVaen7Op4LYXSUn--