Instead of completely new element perhaps we could try something like an alternate underline style?

examples…

http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeLinkEffects/

http://tympanus.net/Development/InlineAnchorStyles/

something as simple as a dotted or dashed underline for red links, BUT! a lot of users have link underlining turned off, so this would likely show only on hover, which is not the end of the world, just something to consider.

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

M +1 415 609 4043 \\

@jaredzimmerman

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:53 AM, max <max@koehler-kn.de> wrote:

@Jared,
Good point. Updated version with smaller, grey icons:
http://codepen.io/awesomephant/full/LJkBm/

best, max
@awesomephant

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