Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:03:45 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?] Message-ID: <20050110180345.GC49329@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <d9175cad05010914171ee95c7e@mail.gmail.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>
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--bXVaen7Op4LYXSUn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:17:01PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > >> 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). > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --bXVaen7Op4LYXSUn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB4sOBocfcwTS3JF8RAg93AJ0VwlDHLzfWhBvKqjJMFhGoibsvcgCeJ1WF i+IhBwP0xEQ3q60octkg5LQ= =Yd5R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bXVaen7Op4LYXSUn--
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