Timeline for Underline appearing for hyperlinks
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| Dec 21, 2022 at 6:10 | vote | accept | Arulkumar | ||
| Jan 9, 2019 at 19:18 | history | edited | Adam LearStaffMod |
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| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:10 | answer | added | Arulkumar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 18:55 | answer | added | River | timeline score: 22 | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 18:42 | comment | added | aardrian | For some context, this may have been driven by an issue I filed two years ago: Can you please add underlines to hyperlinks?. I also collected some research to explain why underlines are my default recommendation to support the most users. | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 16:30 | answer | added | ivan_pozdeev | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 5:31 | answer | added | abarnert | timeline score: 38 | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 4:07 | comment | added | abarnert | The reason I bring that up is: I don't know CSS all that well, but is it possible to say "underline this like a normal underlined link" (which would presumably not have those differences—and might also be disableable by the user?) instead of just "underline this"? | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 4:04 | comment | added | abarnert |
I just noticed that (at least on Chrome 69 macOS), the underlining doesn't look the same as the default underline link-underlining style for HTML without any CSS. For example, Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example on SO has less space around where the comma breaks the underline. And links with a code chunk in the middle break the underline in a way that I don't see for sticking a span inside an underlined span.
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 19:29 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | @HDE226868 Fair enough. I'm having a conversation with the team on how best to make this happen. I don't think everything warrants a meta post or the conversation that follows. Maybe a change log would be a good intermediate step. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @JoeFriend My impression right now is that a lot of folks are . . . not hugely happy with some of the site themes, and there's been controversy over some other recent changes. With the general mood of frustration at what some people see as a lack of communication, even stuff that might seem minor is becoming important. What I think people are looking for is for SE to be as open and explicit as possible, even about stuff like this. It's a good way for everyone to build trust in the process. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 17:30 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @JoeFriend In the past, the SE team used to announce changes either in advance of or immediately after the change was made. Now, there are no such announcements, leaving users to get confused and ask. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:47 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | @ChristianRau I agree this is a highly visible change, but it isn't a "major" change. A new theme is a major change. We're in the midst of a well announced theme change across the network. Maybe I should post something to clarify that changes like this will be continuing until we have the new unified theme in place across all sites. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | Christian Rau | @JoeFriend Running the site, you have all the right to impose things you deem appropriate. You already do and people will deal with it. But at least some kind of announcement would have been appreciated for such a major design change. I mean, users filed genuine bug reports for this to find out what was even going on. After all the talk about improving communication (and the myriads of other announcements for new design features), I have to wonder if someone just accidently pushed the "release" button a little too early here. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:24 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | @TomZych Any website "imposes" their choice of UI on all the users. That's how it works. We can't poll 100m visitors/members across the network on every chance. We can listen to feedback and consider it. That's exactly what we did in this case for the reasons Aaron explains. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:32 | history | edited | ale |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 14:54 | answer | added | Aaron ShekeyStaffMod | timeline score: -8 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 12:37 | comment | added | Arulkumar | @Floern I have updated this point in the post. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 12:37 | history | edited | Arulkumar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 12:26 | comment | added | Floern | It's definitely a bug. Some links have an underline, some don't. And tag links (with [tag:foobar]) in posts also have an underline (example), which looks completely wrong. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 12:04 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 12:03 | history | edited | Arulkumar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Description about "preview mode"
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:59 | comment | added | WarrenFaith | @Arulkumar you complained that the underlines where not there previously. You did not mention any "preview mode" and if you would like to file a bug that the links are not underlined in this mode, than do so. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:57 | comment | added | Mauker | I see you missed the 90's. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:51 | comment | added | user284374 | Let's get back to basics. Who honestly needs google fonts? | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:43 | comment | added | André Kool | Now I'm missing the lines under all the other clickable things like user names. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:42 | comment | added | Arulkumar | @WarrenFaith But the underline is not appearing in the preview mode. You can verify by click the edit link in any post with the hyperlinks | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:42 | comment | added | Tom Zych | It would be nice if we could customize our skins. It would be nice if the people who run Stack Exchange did not simply impose their choice of UI on all the users, like it or lump it. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:36 | comment | added | WarrenFaith | What is the problem with underlines? There are people out there who find the contrast between this blue link color and the main text color to be not high enough to see them easily. Underline is a style independent of color and therefor perfect for color blind people. In regards of links with link texts different than URLs this is a nice additional way to highlight clickable elements in texts | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:32 | comment | added | Suraj Rao | MSO dupe meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/372688/… | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:21 | history | edited | Arulkumar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:14 | history | edited | Arulkumar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:13 | comment | added | robinCTS | And Firefox ESR. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:12 | history | edited | Arulkumar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:11 | comment | added | rene Mod | Repro-ed in both Edge and Chrome also reported in Chat chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7169741#7169741 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:10 | history | asked | Arulkumar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
