Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:55:37AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
(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!)
I'm for too.
BTW, should we have a JavaScript-improved skin? It could hold more functions with less cluttering of the page. If so, should it be a new one, or a variation of an existing one?
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...
While I don't think that underline is any problem in Latin script, it will be bad for CJK.
While underlined links are useful on most web pages, IMHO they look really ugly on wikipedia, and break the "flow of the text". I can't really explain why; maybe because we're link-heavy on many pages (which in itself is a Good Thing). Maybe because I feel our pages are more like a book (in a positive way) than most web pages. Also, most of our links are internally, which IMHO *should* be indicated somehow, so the user will know that he won't leave the encyclopedia by following the link.
Magnus