[Wikipedia-l] Stub detector

[Brion VIBBER]

rose.parks at att.net wrote:
>      In regard to Mr. Manske proposed "stub dtector" scheme, below, I really thought 
> that color coding was out - because it is inaccessible to blind people. I think this scheme is not a 
> good idea without some alternative "stub detector" detectable by blind people.

Same problem as with the red links. Most simply, a stylesheet trick 
could be pulled; in phase II, red links still contained the question 
marks, just hidden. (The rendered HTML was cached, and only the style 
sheet was changed according to user preferences, showing or hiding the 
question marks, making the links black or red.)

>      In addition, I 
> am reading the test page in Opera and there are no green underlining or words, only blue and red. Are 
> we coding for Opera??

Waitaminute... in mozilla 1.2a I don't see any green; the stub links are 
dark red. (BTW you have to log in, go to your preferences, and put in a 
"stub threshold" to activate the feature.)

I find that I automatically interpret the dark red as "visited link", so 
I tend to ignore any link so colored. Perhaps not the best choice for 
what should be "I'm a stub! Fix me now!"

Green, of course, might not be the best choice for users with red/green 
color-blindness.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)