Keryx Web wrote:
Underlines on paper have no usability impact, since you cant click on
it! Underlines on web pages have a usability impact, since people think
they are clickable links.
Just out of interest, I did a site map recently and all the links were
red and underlined, at least on
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Designer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is what I find time and time again. Contrary to some of the
comments l hear on this list, my experience is such that most computer
users haven't got the first clue about how to use their machines, even
after ten years .
Of course, this all also depends on the target audience of your site.
If it's something aimed at the middle-/upper-class 11-16 market, for
instance, you can start to assume a higher IT literacy level.
As with anything, absolutely everything is relative :)
P
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Patrick H. Lauke
Hi all
Patrick:
Of course, this all also depends on the target audience of your site.
Roberto:
Completely agree on that.
Users are different, their habits are different, their needs are different.
As an IT teacher, I am used to face 14-20 yo guys, and for most of them
underlined text is
I strongly recommend you disable this feature of windows on any systems
you set up for the less computer literate because I can tell you form
experience with novice users that its a very bad feature.
David Dorward wrote:
On 28 Mar 2008, at 05:48, Jixor - Stephen I wrote:
Yes but you choose
Quoting Roberto Castaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But our challenge (for all of us who make the Web) is to find out and
apply rules which can be useful for the largest majority of users, and we
must do it for the Web, not for other media; any Web user should be (or
become) used to reasonable Web
I find most do. I think there is a wide disparity depending on who you
work with. Over time we are going to move to a much more educated group
of users. Students coming out of college now are highly computer
literate and web savvy. The next generation of users growing up using
myspace and
On Mar 31, 2008, at 7:04 AM, Roberto Castaldo wrote:
If you look at an underlined text, what is your very first idea
about it?,
and they ALL answered: That's a really important text!!!
Strictly in the context of text, underlined text is a typographical
relative of the double-space
While yet another 50+ age group, who invented the Internet and the World
Wide Web, continue to set the standards which stop it descending into
chaos.
On Mon, March 31, 2008 3:39 pm, Michael Horowitz wrote:
I find most do. I think there is a wide disparity depending on who you
work with.
Stuart,
I would have to add ..and watch those standards disregarded by popular Open
Source and commercial applications.
For an interesting tale of standards and Standards slipping, please see
http://realtech.burningbird.net/semweb/wordpress-25-releases/ - the comment
discussion taking place
Hi
I read through that post and the available comments and I'd say it's a bit
pedantic of the author to go on about a subset of an application and link
that to the end of XHTML and worse. Especially one that seems to be third
party and incorporated into WP. The author also confuses the
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