- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 11:31:57 -0400
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- CC: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 5/18/10 11:24 AM, Brad Kemper 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?
The "make it look good and readable" principle, sorta.
> When I am designing Web pages for computer monitors, I virtually always want the underline to be a single pixel in thickness
A single device pixel? On some of the monitors I have lying around here
that wouldn't even be all that visible. Or do you mean single CSS pixel?
> (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.
Integer number of pixels seems reasonable; I believe Gecko does that in
fact.
> As for position, I would much rather it be in a consistent position across different fonts or sizes on the same line.
In what situation? If you have:
<div>
<span
style="font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline">Some</span>
more
<span
style="font-size: 30px; text-decoration: underline">text</span>
</div>
you expect the underlines to line up? Even if that means that either
the "text" looks terrible or the "Some" looks terrible?
-Boris
Received on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:48:33 UTC