- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 09:18:33 +1200
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Aryeh Gregor: > Underlining is relatively rare and color changes are relatively rare, > so this doesn't come up too much. But it came up for me in the real > world just last week. The case was that anolis (a preprocessor for > specifications written in HTML, used by HTML5 and a couple of specs I > edit) generates auto-links for cross-references. Cross-references can > be <code> elements, so it was generating code like > > <a href=...><code>...</code></a> > > The stylesheet had <code> bold orange. So this produced a blue > underline under orange text, which wasn't the desired effect at all. > I've run into this once or twice before, and have trouble seeing where > it would ever be the desired behavior. FWIW, we use this pattern deliberately for element links in SVG specifications, e.g. see the ‘ellipse’ words here: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/shapes.html#InterfaceSVGEllipseElement (I don’t claim that it’s a particularly nice style, just that some people are relying on it.) -- Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
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