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Re: Link format: to underline or not

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From: steven
Date: Oct 5, 2010 8:48AM

I agree with your counter points Jared, but should we really still be
encouraging copy text to be broken up with high contrasting links?

Look at the web page you referred to as an example. By default, the contrast
of the links in the copy disrupt the hierarchy of headers and grammatical
emphasis within the copy itself (it clearly does not read as well as a
traditional printed text document for example). Not significantly, but the
links (being styled as per the menu) semantically draw the menu and copy
together (visually) ... I don't think that is the correct thing to do.
Encouraging this sort of practice is also not going to help us truely
separate content from structure, if the structure is being merged into the
content in such a way, surely?

Or maybe I am being too picky?

Steven