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Posted by dorayme on 04/08/07 22:18
In article <_%_Rh.32900$Z55.13321@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit Bernhard Sturm:
>
> > Which is what I always wondered: defining a hyperlink by setting the
> > color to blue and underline it, is just one of the mysteries of the
> > default definitions.
>
> I suppose we don't want to know the real events behind this mystery; it
> might be too maddening. Some day, someone decided to make links blue and
> underlined, for some odd reason, and was imitated by others.
Blue underlining is a variety of the QWERTY phenomena. But, with
the QWERTY keyboard layout, there were mechanical reasons (the
keys were laid out to make old typewriters less prone to sticking
via their key wires jamming). From then on, of course, all
attempts at different layouts have been highly marginalised.
--
dorayme
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