On mar, 2002-12-31 at 00:27, Derek Moore wrote:
Because of the nature of Wikipedia, articles tend to get rather congested with links. All these super-bright reds and blues and gaudy underlines can sometimes get the better of an article. I was working on [[w:LAMP]] just now when my eyes just couldn't take anymore.
It might be nice to find some softer colors for links, visited links, and non-existent links.
What do you think of the colors in the Cologne Blue skin?
(I really think we need to finish cleaning up Cologne Blue and make it, or a variant of it, the standard skin. It's a darn sight nicer looking!)
And to also, via CSS, get rid of the underlines on links within the body of an article
I'm *very* much against this. It's standard convention for links on the web to be underlined; not doing so (on top of changing the standard colors) makes them practically invisible. I've been on sites where I literally couldn't tell what was a link and what wasn't short of putting the cursor over every word, because some smartass webmaster decided that links should be bold, not underlined, and the same color as regular text, and would use the same bold for simple emphasis...
That said, I've no objection to removing the forced underline from our style definitions and leaving it up to the browser settings.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)