[whatwg] borders on images inside links

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Tue Mar 2 01:56:26 PST 2010


On Mar 2, 2010, at 1:41 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> 2) I do not believe the proposed rule is a good default for either  
> documents or applications. It looks ugly. I randomly checked 10 of  
> the sites I browse most often and I could not find a single one that  
> explicitly added this rule for the browsers that don't have it.  
> What's more, I could not find a single one that retained it for  
> images. This rule is just a vestigial artifact that Web developers  
> have to work around.

I partially take it back, news.google.com and images.google.com  
deliberately add blue borders to image links. However they do not use  
a default border (it's 1px instead of 2px for one thing).

  - Maciej




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