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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Subject:   Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?]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>
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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.)

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