I'm sorry, it's not dotted, it's a dashed underline/border-bottom . On 9/15/11, Carlos AB <[email protected]> wrote: > Wiki creole says that we should use a dotted underline to flag a link > to a non existent page and I believe it is a dotted border-bottom. > > Should we respect that since PmWiki supports creole and I believe that > this particular rule of creole was done that way to also give support > for people that are visually impaired. > > Also, PmWiki allows us to change the fmt of how links to non existant > pages look like, trough $LinkPageCreateFmt . > > This is good for people who build skins as the actual > $LinkPageCreateFmt creates two links for one markup, I had to hide the > second link to create a different style of sidebar once and having a > skin to change the format of $LinkPageCreateFmt doesn't sound like a > good idea and plus it would create more problems. > > Does the PmWiki community wants to follow creole rules by the dot, or > perhaps, by the underline? :-) > > CarlosAB > > On 9/15/11, John Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>>>horizontally, so long lines don't cause an overflow; avoid underline for >>>>links (use border-bottom on hover instead, if at all); spruce up the >>> >>> I want links to be underlined _and_ coloured, I don not want to guess >>> what could be a link. >> >> Yes, unless there is a strong contrast between the text colour and the >> link colour, this is a problem with many sites, especially, as Petko >> notes, when the visited colour is not clearly different. >> >> What is your view of sites where the link border-bottom is dotted? It >> makes links more visible, but is less intrusive than a solid rule. The >> dotted rule can turn solid on mouseover, of course. >>> >>> BTW: What's the benefit of "border-bottom" (besides different color)? >> >> Underline passes through the letter descenders and makes the words >> slightly less readable -- we recognise words in part by the word shape >> and >> underline can obscure this to a (small) degree. The border-bottom option >> puts a rule slightly below the descenders. This is a practice borrowed >> from print publishing, whereas underlining is carried over from the >> manual >> typewriter. My understanding (and I am not certain of this) is that >> mechanical constraints in a typewriter meant the underline physically >> could not print below the descenders, unless you moved the carriage up >> slightly. >> >> JR >> -- >> John Rankin >
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