colored underlined links are the default on the web. Creating something more subtle may ease reading, but is no doubt going to cause confusion for people who don't keep their mouse in the link long enough, or for those who don't have scripts or other needed options enabled for them to see mouseover images.
--Mgm
On 10/10/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
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Michael Turley wrote:
On 10/9/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/9/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote: I tend to use wikilinks to help me skim sentences for the important subjects they refer to.
I think the problem with the Language article is that it's far too heavily wikified. In some sentences nearly all words are needlessly peppered with blue link. As if someone would find himself unable to understand what was meant by "sounds" or "gestures" in the opener, and a link to the articles for those words would help.
Perhaps you should choose (or design) a skin that doesn't highlight wikilinks unless you glide your cursor over them.
In general, I would agree that our blue wikilinks are a little too contrasting with the text body, making them a distraction, and would prefer something more subtle as the default.
I think that blue was initially chosen as the default for hyperlinks in browsers due to red/green colourblindness...
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