Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 04/07/07 19:18

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Simon Harris:
>
>> I have my A tags (links) set to green when they are on the body or
>> table cells. This works Ok.
>
> No it doesn't. People have to guess what green means, instead of
> immediately noticing nice tasty blue links with a delicious underline.
>

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. Psychologically it's utter nonsense to use 'blue'
for something you would like the user to click at. A more 'active' color
is far better than the tranqulizing blue (it's far removed from being
'tasty'). And the argument, that we are all now used to blue underlined
links falls flat if you are really serious in striving for better
solutions (otherwise there would still be one button mice for macs).
But I do agree: green is a likewise bad choice as blue. Use active
colors instead.

cheers
bernhard
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