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 Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?] Message-ID: <41E50DE3.5050105@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <F7F917E2-63BA-11D9-B8D2-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> References: <BB0FF3A5-58B9-11D9-BA41-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <736EAA55-5B8B-11D9-ACB2-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <20050102110732.GB861@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050103232207.GA44980@gothmog.gr> <9FC79942-5DE3-11D9-BEAB-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <AC17F3AB-5EFE-11D9-BEAB-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <20050108144127.GA75006@sumuk.de> <8B30EFDE-6195-11D9-A996-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <d9175cad05010914171ee95c7e@mail.gmail.com> <20050110180345.GC49329@submonkey.net> <F7F917E2-63BA-11D9-B8D2-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com>
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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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