[WikiEN-l] Re: I demand a daily spot for great writing

Mon Oct 10 10:16:16 UTC 2005

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Michael Turley wrote:
> On 10/9/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 10/9/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>>
>>>Tony Sidaway wrote:
>>>I tend to use wikilinks
>>>to help me skim sentences for the important subjects they refer to.
>>>
>>
>>I think the problem with the Language article is that it's far too heavily
>>wikified. In some sentences nearly all words are needlessly peppered with
>>blue link. As if someone would find himself unable to understand what was
>>meant by "sounds" or "gestures" in the opener, and a link to the articles
>>for those words would help.
> 
> 
> Perhaps you should choose (or design) a skin that doesn't highlight
> wikilinks unless you glide your cursor over them.
> 
> In general, I would agree that our blue wikilinks are a little too
> contrasting with the text body, making them a distraction, and would
> prefer something more subtle as the default.
> 

I think that blue was initially chosen as the default for hyperlinks in
browsers due to red/green colourblindness...

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