Re: [boost] Re: [website] Oh the fun..

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-27 14:34:21

At Wednesday 2005-04-27 06:27, you wrote:
>"Marcin Kaliciñski" <kalita_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> >> I've made a variety of changes to incorporate the variety of concerns
> >> people had. There are problem that I likely did not fix. And of course
> >> your browser mileage may vary. I'm not going to mention what the changes
> >> are. They should either be obvious, and I'd rather not influence
> >> perceptions :-)
> >>
> >> Yes, both the front and history page are updated.
> >>
> >> http://redshift-software.com/~grafik/boost/index.htm
> >> http://redshift-software.com/~grafik/boost/more/version_history.html
> >
> > Great.
>
>I agree!
>
> > I only don't like these underlined links,
>
>I sort of agree here, too.  It's not bad, just a little uncomfortable.

How about we do NOTHING to the links and let the user decide how s/he 
wishes to view them?
IIRC every browser has a mechanism (user choosable) for displaying links.
Are we so arrogant we presume to know better than the user what they should 
look like?

> > why not colored text that underlines only when pointed to.
>
>I think that might be a little better.

I say: "Leave it up to the user!!"

>--
>Dave Abrahams
>Boost Consulting
>www.boost-consulting.com
>
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