Re: [O] css link colors for Worg are difficult to spot

[Alexander Poslavsky]

On 1 Apr 2013, at 15:14, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:

I find the links difficult to spot in Worg sometimes, especially
depending on monitor angle and current brightness setting. Is this an
issue for anyone else?

I fiddled around in /style/worg.css a bit and didn't land on anything
too great. I'm wondering if anyone with a design background might have
suggestions for link colors? I guess if no one else is affected by
this... I'll just deal with it and mine sweep wildly with my mouse
when I think a link should be in there somewhere :)

In the old days lines used to be underlined, nowadays it is considered a bit dated, but an underlined item in a sentence is generally understood to be a link.

A good example is http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/html/elements/a

Which uses:

a { text-decoration: underline }

and for external links:

a.external {

padding-right: 15px;

margin-right: 5px;

background-image: url(skins/webplatform/images/link-external.png);

background-repeat: no-repeat;

background-position: right 3px;

}

Design as this won't do on behance or dribble, but worg is primarily for documentation. Usability and readability should trump superficial aesthetics in a case like this.