From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 10:24:41 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 D6D1416A4E4 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:24:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from engine140.deployzone.net (engine140.deployzone.net [193.17.85.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1534443D31 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:24:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@zumbrunn.com) Received: from adsl-212-90-218-5.cybernet.ch [212.90.218.5] by engine140.deployzone.net; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:23:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050110180345.GC49329@submonkey.net> 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> <20050110180345.GC49329@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chris Zumbrunn Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:24:25 +0100 To: Ceri Davies X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?]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: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:24:42 -0000 On Jan 10, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:17:01PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: >> >> 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. People with vision impairment set their browser to override the stylesheet, so the web works best for them personally. This is not something that is specific to a particular site. I would argue that underlining links impairs the vision of everybody else ;-) The important thing is consistency: If it's blue it's a link, if it's not blue it's not a link. Chris