Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: lastest css changes on test:

Timwi wrote:

tarquin wrote:

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• links:

everyone here seems to hate underlined links.

Nooo! Whatever you do, don't remove the underline!! ;-)

And most of all, the underline shows whether two words are separate links or not. Since I hardly ever use the mouse, the hover effect wouldn't help me. Pretend I had some sort of disability that prevents me from using the mouse at all, and then think in terms of accessibility :)

Underlines links are already out in standard skin. People complain that with heavy linking, a page has too many underlines -- but we're a HYPERTEXT! links are what we do!

I think there's a case to be made for having underlined links in the *default* skin at least. I'd like to put them in hover at least. (have you set your browser stylesheet to force them, BTW?)

You don't need to know any PHP for this. If you just search all the files for 'ffffff', you find Skin.php, Line 124. I'll quote Lines 121-124:

    if ( 0 != $wgTitle->getNamespace() ) {
        $a = array( "bgcolor" => "#FFFFDD" );
    }
    else $a = array( "bgcolor" => "#FFFFFF" );

Clearly, these are the background colours for meta-namespaces and the article namespace. Seeing as 'ondblclick' and 'onload' are also used in the same routine, you can probably safely change this to

    if ( 0 != $wgTitle->getNamespace() ) {
        $a = array( "class" => "meta" );
    }
    else $a = array( "class" => "encyclopedia" );

thanks!