Re: TECH: Re: Underlining

Henrik Theiling skrev:
 > Hi!
 >
 > Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
 >> Philip Newton skrev:
 >>  > On 4/11/07, T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>
 >>  > wrote:
 >>  >> [*]: I find Wikipedia, when I'm not logged in and
 >>  >> running on a browser other than my normal ones,
 >>  >> particularly irritating, because you often get
 >>  >> [[annoying]] [[links]] [[like]] [[this]], and with no
 >>  >> underlining it's impossible to tell that each word is
 >>  >> a separate link, rather than just one long one.
 >>  >
 >>  > Same here. Plus I find that links that are underlined
 >>  > are more distinct from surrounding text than links
 >>  > that are merely a different colour. Rather annoying
 >>  > choice Wikipedia made.
 >>
 >> I agree entirely of course. ...
 >
 > I don't! I do not like underlined links at all, because
 > they destroy the visual purity of the text. If you have
 > many links, your text become more and more ugly. And it is
 > the web designer's duty to prevent people from seeing ugly
 > text. :-P

I can agree with that, but then too many links are IMHO a
bad in itself, just as too many footnotes -- although I
probably err against both not a little.

 > But it's nice that there are user preferences overriding
 > what web designers think. :-)

Hmm, I'd hate somebody overriding my new style for
<melroch.se> (although there ain't much content yet! :-),
although I actually offer an alternative style, available
through a link at the top of every page.
--

/BP 8^)
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