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Re: Link format: to underline or not

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Oct 5, 2010 10:06AM

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:49 AM, steven wrote:
> Why is that really okay? If we really want to separate
> content from function.

Who has ever suggested that you should separate content from function
on the web? Or content from structure, as your previous message
suggests. The web is all about function and structure - and
particularly links. Is it not authored in *hypertext* *markup*
language. Hypertext = links. Markup = structure. Both of these are
generally intended to be visually offset from standard content
otherwise they are useless.

What good would the web be if you tried to separate out content and
structure and function. It certainly would be neither useful nor
accessible.

I think perhaps you may be confusing recommendations that you should
separate content/functionality from *design*, a noble objective that
actually does support better accessibility.

Jared