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On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 01:56 -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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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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I agree with David Baron on this. The majority of browsers render images within links as having a border (which is the image highlight equivalent of a text underline when you think about it in context). Having some default expected behavior would be nice to see in a spec, even if the majority of websites actually override it. Having it in a spec will remain consistent with the older browser implementations, and may serve as a guideline as to exactly what should be expected.<BR>
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Besides, like you say Maciej, most website devs override this rule anyway, so it won't actually break anything, it would just clarify what is already happening.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Ash<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk">http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk</A><BR>
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