On May 17, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Thomas Phinney wrote: > Defining the default underline behavior should be part of any effort > to give users the ability to further modify the underline. A default > underline should use the values in the font for underline position and > thickness. Even if it doesn't, the underline should still scale with > the text. > > (Yes, the Chrome/Safari/IE behavior is simply incorrect.) "Should" according to what? Some principal of typographic purity? When I am designing Web pages for computer monitors, I virtually always want the underline to be a single pixel in thickness (especially when used for hyperlinks). Even if I wanted a bigger underline for larger letters (I never actually have, btw), I would want it to be an integer number of pixels thick. As for position, I would much rather it be in a consistent position across different fonts or sizes on the same line.
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