Bill Moseley wrote:
Back to the link colors:
- The hover color of #666666 seems wrong, as it fades away when hovering. - The long TOC lists look funny underlined. Too busy with underline after
underline.
I know about the usability studies and that people expect default behavior. But, this is mod_perl, sophisticated users that can deal with a little variation. So I think our link style can vary a bit, yet still be basic.
My suggestion is to make all links (in the content section):
a:link { text-decoration: none; } a:visited { text-decoration: none; } a:active { text-decoration: underline; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
So, basically, let people keep their normal link colors, but get rid of the default underline for links, mostly because of the table of contents, but just to cut down on the "noise" on the page. And do that for all links, to make it consistent. Simple is better. The blue (or what their link color is) will be obvious to the user without the underline.
The sidebar links (main TOC, etc.), src|pdf, and "hidden" H* links are fine; this just applies to the content area.
One change might be the "visited" link color, but since the site is basically gray, we don't need to worry about clashing colors much.
Bill, the default styles are important. We can "force" people to upgrade their old buggy browsers, we cannot "force" people to fix their disabilities. We don't want to discriminate the latter group even if it makes the site look somewhat nicer. And unfortunately being a sophisticated user doesn't help here :(
That's said I think all links should be underlined, the menu-like links underlined on hover, and the colors should be the default ones. Therefore I've simply removed our setting for a, but the special cases. The preview site URL has the updated version.
Still waiting for a reply from Jonathan, by so far the current state of the link style (as it's in cvs) is the opinion of the majority.
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