On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Alexander Poslavsky <alexander.poslav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1 Apr 2013, at 15:14, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I find the links difficult to spot in Worg sometimes, especially > depending on monitor angle and current brightness setting. Is this an > issue for anyone else? > > I fiddled around in /style/worg.css a bit and didn't land on anything > too great. I'm wondering if anyone with a design background might have > suggestions for link colors? I guess if no one else is affected by > this... I'll just deal with it and mine sweep wildly with my mouse > when I think a link should be in there somewhere :) > > > In the old days lines used to be underlined, nowadays it is considered a bit > dated, but an underlined item in a sentence is generally understood to be a > link. > > A good example is http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/html/elements/a > > Which uses: > > a { text-decoration: underline } > > and for external links: > > a.external { > padding-right: 15px; > margin-right: 5px; > background-image: url(skins/webplatform/images/link-external.png); > background-repeat: no-repeat; > background-position: right 3px; > }
I wouldn't mind this at all. Or perhaps the same color link, but unvisited is underlined and visited is not? Or reddish + underline for unvisited, greenish + underline for visited, and hover simply brightens up each respective color or something? > > Design as this won't do on behance or dribble, but worg is primarily for > documentation. Usability and readability should trump superficial aesthetics > in a case like this. Agreed as well. It drives me crazy to have posted to the list a couple times recently for someone to tell me where, exactly, something is only to find out there was, indeed, a link in the paragraph I was looking at but didn't see it! John
