Hi,

When the Internet was first established it became a (default?) standard to
underline URLs. The point being that underlined text stands out, and hence
embedded URLs are easily visible. Nowadays, we frequently find different colours
being used to indicate a URL embedded in text, which only becomes underlined
when one hovers over it, with the cursor. Presumably this has been done to make
the text as a whole more attractive, this sacrifice to form has been at the cost
of functionality. It is now harder to find the URLs in a text.

Don't these people realize that the whole point of underlining URLs was to make
them *ugly*, i.e. to make them stick out like a sore thumb?

Regards,

Robin van Spaandonk

http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html

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