[WEB4LIB] Re: underlining on or off on public web stations

[Margaret F. Dikel]

At 01:34 PM 3/4/99 -0800, Avi Rappoport wrote:

>Underlining links is a standard on the web, and something that most 
>users are thoroughly familiar with.  

I'd like to correct a bit of terminology here which most people
in this discussion seem to be using.

Underlining is a standard in web browsers, not "on the web."  It is a 
locally-controlled function of the software, not a part of the HTML 
markup which designs the page.

If designers would stop using email addresses, file names, and other 
linkages with underscores in them, then leaving the browser's default 
setting of underlining links would not be a problem.   However, how many
of us have copied information incorrectly because we could not see
the underscore?  And if the same designers would not make links the 
same color as other text, the problem would not be so apparent.

Margaret

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