Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?]

[Chris Zumbrunn]

On Jan 10, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Ceri Davies wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:17:01PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
>>
>> Something we do a lot at my workplace (web development firm, mostly)
>> is to have underlines on rollovers and (on some sites unselected,
>> depending of course on user preference).  I would prefer to not see
>> the blue underlined if we could avoid it.  Of course with the modern
>> css technology, it's not an issue because any user that wants blue
>> underlined links (vision impairment, personal preference, etc) can
>> override the link colour via his/her client.
>
> I am sure that people with vision impairment would love to mess around
> trying to edit a custom stylesheet because you don't like blue anchors.
> I quite like the rest of this patch, but removing the underline from
> links is evil.

People with vision impairment set their browser to override the 
stylesheet, so the web works best for them personally. This is not 
something that is specific to a particular site. I would argue that 
underlining links impairs the vision of everybody else ;-)

The important thing is consistency: If it's blue it's a link, if it's 
not blue it's not a link.

Chris