Links style

[Aleksey Shipilev]

Hi there,

UX question: can we please reconsider the links style on OpenJDK
website? Most of my users (and me included) are arguably colorblind
and/or having bad screens, because we can hardly see two (visited) links
on http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/scratch/oj-web/oj-current.png.

I think there are two things which can help:

  a) Ignore visited links, and draw the links in their original color,
see http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/scratch/oj-web/oj-samecolor.png;
granted, it would be nicer to segregate visited/non-visited links, but I
don't know if the color choices were because of some consistent style.

  b) Get the underline back when the link is hovered over; that gets
back the "tactile" feedback that we are dealing with links, see
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/scratch/oj-web/oj-selected.png.

See the sample patch below.

Thanks,
-Aleksey.

$ hg diff etc/
diff -r f8ecef8d8517 etc/page.css
--- a/etc/page.css	Mon May 19 15:33:47 2014 -0700
+++ b/etc/page.css	Tue May 20 16:55:36 2014 +0400
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 PRE { font-size: smaller; }
 A { text-decoration: none; }
 A:link { color: #437291; }
-A:visited { color: #666666; }
-A[href]:hover { color: #e76f00; }
+A:visited { color: #437291; }
+A[href]:hover { color: #e76f00; text-decoration: underline; }
 A IMG { border-width: 0px; }
 IMG { background: white; }