[pmwiki-users] it's time to change pmwiki default skin!

Oliver Betz list_ob at gmx.net
Thu Sep 15 12:34:50 CDT 2011


"John Rankin" wrote:

[...]

>What is your view of sites where the link border-bottom is dotted? It

o.k. for me

>makes links more visible, but is less intrusive than a solid rule. The
>dotted rule can turn solid on mouseover, of course.
>>
>> BTW: What's the benefit of "border-bottom" (besides different color)?
>
>Underline passes through the letter descenders and makes the words
>slightly less readable -- we recognise words in part by the word shape and
>underline can obscure this to a (small) degree. The border-bottom option
>puts a rule slightly below the descenders. This is a practice borrowed

I see, thanks for the explanation.

Oliver




More information about the pmwiki-users mailing list