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From: Harry Zilber To: info-en@wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 12:24 PM Subject: CAN YOU IMPROVE YOUR WEB ARTICLE FORMATTING FOR BETTER READABLITITY? Hi Wikipedia staff! I enjoy your website and articles greatly. I'd like to suggest that you offer your users/end customers the ability to view your website articles with links that are in the same black font colour as the remaining 'non-linked' text of the article. I'm currently using a Firefox browser, and when I view Wikipedia articles there are numerous links in the text of the articles that are depicted in blue coloured font. The article text thus becomes a hodgepodge of black and blue text, which I find very distracting. I've seen other websites (unrelated to Wikipedia) previously where the links are shown in the same black font colours, but when the user 'hovers' his/her mouse cursor over the text, the links then become underlined (or possibly change colours?). I believe that this type of web-page link-viewing system improves readability be reason of having far fewer visual distractions. I'm sure that offering your users the ability to have an alternate method of viewing text links will help your already excellent product become even more popular and user-friendly. Regards, Harry Zilber Toronto, Ontario, Canada e-mail: harryzilber@sympatico.ca Office: 905-430-6377 Fax: 905-430-6518 Cell: 905-424-2294
That would greatly harm the ability to use the web site by making it difficult to find and use links.
Tell him about the CSS per-user customization.
(In reply to comment #2) > Tell him about the CSS per-user customization. Why couldn't you have done, with that comment? Bear in mind that that's useless for anonymous readers.
