Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > > Le mer 10/09/2003 à 14:45, Felix Miata a écrit: > > > No, links should be underlined, so that users know a link is a > > > link without having to hover. See e.g. > > > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html > > > > underline is weird. link in blue ok, but not underline, this is not > > beautiful at all ! > > It isn't about beauty, it's about usability. Users expect links to be > blue and underlined. When they aren't, usability suffers, because > you've violated a standard practice they rely on.
People who don't want this can disable it in their webbrowser. And mandrake isn't an art-like site. It has to be usable. > > > No, you should put sans-serif first, and leave out arial and > > > helvetica and verdana. That way, whatever the user has decided is > > > the best sans-serif is the one that will be used. > > > > normal you put your specific fonts first and then default one ( > > family like sans-serif ) so that if the user doesn't have the font > > you want it fallback to generals ones. > > Normal only as in common practice, not as in wise practice. When you > have a need (normally uncommon) to use specific fonts on your page, > then specify them. Otherwise, let the user see his choice by making > only the generic specification, or none at all. Font-family: verdana, > arial, helvetica, sans-serif; is just plain dumb me-too-ism. Exactly. Let people choose their own favourite font-sets. Once again. This is not an art-site. It needs to be functional. # Han -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
