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[gothwalk]

The HTML I'm currently working is so bad I could cry. If I ever get my hands on the moron who put it together, I shall carefully strangle him with a printout of all the useless extra stuff he put in here. There are repeated occurences of <font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font> - when what they wanted was two spaces. And it'd be almost OK if it was consistently Arial, or size 2, or white - but it's not. This guy thought carefully about what size, font and colour his spaces were to be, by the looks of things. And there are random bold tags scattered up and down the documents like ornaments on a Christmas Tree.

Razzle frazzle.

Comments

[kajivar]

<u> tags are bad?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

From a long-term usability point of view, yeah. Underlines on the web mean links, to the vast majority of people. Underlines that aren't links frustrate people, as a first effect, and then go on to devalue that convention, so that we have to find other ways to indicate links, like "click here", or graphic buttons.

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[kajivar]

Ahhh, understandable. Thanks for the explanation.