In article <424ECCC4.1090704@redshift-software.com>, Rene Rivera <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> wrote:
* IMO Links in the body don't look good. (I mean dash underlining).
I agree with this. If you want a de-emphasized indicator some kind of pale solid underline would work. I suppose the dashes are supposed to work with any background color the user chooses? Even a dotted (alternating pixels) line would be better.
I actually agree.. My first attempt was to use the "dotted" underlines and the do look much better than the "dashed". But that brings up another unfortunate browser issue: IE doesn't support the "dotted" borders and displays "dashed" borders instead.
Guess I'll have to try and draw my own borders for this :-\ -- Or just make IE users suffer the less pleasing look.
Several browsers use non-solid underline as the default appearance of elements which display a pop-up clarification on mouseover. See <http://tribblescape.com/archives/20030228_html_acronym_tagging.php> for an example. For this reason, I would be extremely hesitant to use non-solid underlines for links. meeroh