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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:45:39 -0600
From:      Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
To:        Chris Zumbrunn <chris@zumbrunn.com>
Cc:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Subject:   Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?]
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Chris Zumbrunn wrote:

> 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.
>
>
This link should be helpful: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040510.html



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