exactly. I think that we might be doing too much in the way of a value
judgement. I consider a red ink a todo list, or request, not "something
wrong" I know the opinions vary here but I'd rather us not swing too far
into associating an emotion or value judgment on red links.



*Jared Zimmerman * \\  Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation

M +1 415 609 4043 \\  @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0>


On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:04 PM, max <[email protected]> wrote:

>  @jared:
>
> I've got two points.
>
> 1. Hover isn't a thing we can rely on. Even desktop computers have touch
> screens now.
> 2.The colour red usually means that something's wrong (in our case: a page
> doesn't exist yet), and so does the "!" icon. "Dotted Underline" on the
> other hand has no meaning to it, it's super abstract. Users would have to
> learn what it means by trial and error.
>
> -best,
> max
> @awesomephant
>
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