Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:24:25 +0100 From: Chris Zumbrunn <chris@zumbrunn.com> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?] Message-ID: <F7F917E2-63BA-11D9-B8D2-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> In-Reply-To: <20050110180345.GC49329@submonkey.net> 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>
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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
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