From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 11:45:56 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 8604516A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:45:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E47143D1F for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:45:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20050112114540i9200it2foe>; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:45:55 +0000 Message-ID: <41E50DE3.5050105@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:45:39 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Zumbrunn 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org cc: Ceri Davies Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?]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: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:45:56 -0000 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