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)