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PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 8:01 pm 
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Has anyone else noticed that when you mouse over links, a dotted line appears underneath them? Every single link. Is it my browser, or is it HW in general?

(I'm using Firefox version 3.6.16.)

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Yes! I noticed it just this morning and was wondering whether I should do a Q&A post on it. It looks strange...

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It does, and it's a little distracting... :?

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Yes, it's a bit narky... :?

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*draws sword, threatening little dots* Avast, ye! :twisted:

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I'm running Firefox 3.6.16 too. I thought that was what was causing it, for reasons I can't now remember. :P

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I just noticed it too! And I'm IE.

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PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 9:12 pm 
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I'm Google Chrome. *nudges little dots with sword*

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I am now Firefox 4, and notice the same thing. It must be intentional... so for convenience sake let us skip straight to the phase where we all scream those two names and ask which of them did it and calmly request that they find some way to make it so that it won't always happen...

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PostPosted: April 12th, 2011, 12:00 am 
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I think it's a decent feature, except when it causes links to enlarge and thus moves other links around and messes with things.

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Yeah, we did that on purpose. It isn't the best solution, but we are trying to figure out how to make links more obvious in posts. This isn't permanent. :P Haha.

Any suggestions for how to differentiate links in posts?


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 Post subject: Re: Dotted Links?
PostPosted: April 12th, 2011, 3:13 am 
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Is it possible to make them glow the same way you do on HWSF? Links are super easy to see over there because running the mouse over them makes them stand out with their glowy outlines.

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Yeah, that would work. :)


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PostPosted: April 12th, 2011, 3:39 am 
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Cool. :D

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PostPosted: April 12th, 2011, 5:01 am 
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Just wanted to point out that because this styling is applied to every link it also underlines the HW logo, and the 'new post' button, thus breaking the layout sometimes.

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PostPosted: April 12th, 2011, 5:21 am 
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Right, we are going to target it to only specific kinds of links.


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PostPosted: April 12th, 2011, 6:20 am 
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Other than color and glow, you could try a small drop shadow (like all the text on SF has already)

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I think the previous style was good enough, though Jay says that it wasn't visible enough. (It was on all the screens I'd seen... :P)

Glow requires white text, so that's not an option.

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Hehe isn't it funny how little things annoy us! *Glares at dots* I like the idea of a different colour.

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We tried different colors, but most colors majorly mess things up. :P

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PostPosted: April 12th, 2011, 7:50 am 
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I think it's fine how it was. It would get slightly darker when moused over, correct? I also don't know if this is related, but the colors are bouncy. When you scroll over them, their whole row gets about 1.5 times as thick, and they bounce up and down if you move your mouse up and down over them. It's actually rather fun. *bounces the colors*

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PostPosted: April 12th, 2011, 9:09 am 
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It also underlines the color squares for choosing the color of your text in a post, and the smilies if you mouse-over them.

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Ah... it's a design element! I noticed their sudden appearance yesterday, but I figured it was my browser... I'm too clueless to think to ask if it was a site update. :roll:

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Reiyen wrote:
It also underlines the color squares for choosing the color of your text in a post, and the smilies if you mouse-over them.
My colors just bounce. :)

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Woohoo! *runs mouse over every link in sight* Well done with the glow, folks! Looks great! :D

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The glowing looks good. :cool:

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MLs are a little hard to read, but other than that it's good!

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MLs are a little hard to read, but other than that it's good!


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Aaah I like the glow so much! It's amazing.

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Ooh... shiny. *plays with glowing links*

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Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote:
Elanhil wrote:
MLs are a little hard to read, but other than that it's good!


Explain?
When you roll over an ML name, it glows white and it's hard to read. But that shouldn't be a problem unless somebody really has short term memory loss, and forgot who they rolled over. ;)

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Oh, right, they don't need to be readable in the hover state, necessarily. Especially not for usernames. :)


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Who thinks Emeth's username needs a black shadow behind it? :D

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Oooh, that is a good idea. :D

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That would be flamingly awesome... I vote for black shadow!

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Sounds like a secret title: Project Black Shadow. :D :D

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Sounds like a secret title: Project Black Shadow. :D :D


It doth.

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