Re: Link colours in new Worg style

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

Hi Bastien,

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 06:24:12PM +0100, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Suvayu,
> 
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The new Worg style is amazing; the text is very clear and much more
> > readable now.  However I have a major complaint about the links.  It
> > seems the new style overrides my browser's colour setting for unvisited
> > and visited links.  I think this is extremely confusing.  As per my
> > setting, I have blue for unvisited links and purple for visited links.
> > The new style overrides this to red for unvisited and blue for visited.
> > Obviously you can see how this leads to a confusion.  I would really
> > appreciate it if this was left to the user and not determined by the
> > webpage.
> 
> The previous stylesheet already used non-default colors for
> non-visited and visited links.  I just changed the colors.
> 
> Here is the setting you saw:
> 
>   a {text-decoration: none; color: #FF0000; font-weight: 400;}
>   a:visited {text-decoration: none; color: #0066CC; font-weight: 400;}
>   a:hover {text-decoration: underline; color: #FF0000}
> 
> But you're right this is confusing, as this is the exact opposite
> of... most browsers default settings.  I swaped the color, let me
> know if this looks better.
> 

I don't know why I did not notice that before!  Maybe this time I was
browsing around, checking things whereas earlier I knew which entry I
was looking for.  In any case, it is less confusing after the switch.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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