Stuart Foulstone
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:21:30 -0700
Hi, Usability. Users expect link-text to be underlined. Many user studies found that when you underline other text users try to click on it and get quite annoyed when nothing happens (some users would click on the underlined text several times before they gave up). Originally links were to have predefined colours that would have avoided this situation, but Web Designers thought better and decided to start styling their link colours as they thought fit. Even though this styling often does not include underlining, users still expect underlined text to mean links. This led to the confusion, so something had to give - it was <u>. <b> and <i> are not deprecated because there may be times when you want to style the text in that way but without the semantic emphasis that <em> and <strong> confer. On Thu, March 27, 2008 4:28 am, Kepler Gelotte wrote: > Hi, > > I am just curious if anyone can explain why the <u> tag has been > deprecated > while <b> and <i> are still allowed. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Kepler Gelotte > Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. > 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 > www.neighborwebmaster.com > phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************