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Date:      Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:17:01 -0600
From:      Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Zumbrunn <chris@zumbrunn.com>
Cc:        "Simon L.Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?]
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> >> 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).
> 
> 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.

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.  Having the links that
have been selected still visible (especially on rollover) but "faded
out" in some form into the regular text makes a lot of things more
readable.  Just a thought,
  Eric


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