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Re: underlined vs. blue links

From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 04:06:37 -0400 (EDT)
To: Karl-Michael Schneider <schneide@phil.uni-passau.de>
cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0007050405510.10704-100000@tux.w3.org>
Actually, the user can decide, through changing their amya.css file. THe
trick is to provide an easier interface for them to do this.

Charles McCN

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Karl-Michael Schneider wrote:

  The W3C help page says that "Links are usually displayed in blue (or underlined
  on monochrome displays)." I'm running Amaya on a remote Linux host with a color
  graphics card and let it display on my monchrome SUN monitor. Of course, links
  are not displayed underlined, and on a monochrome display, blue looks almost
  identical to black. After some fiddling around with the color settings, a found
  DarkGrey2 an acceptible color for text, so I can distinguish normal text from
  links.
  
  It would be a good idea to let the user decide whether links are displayed
  in blue or underlined (or in any other color).
  
  Karl-Michael
  

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