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| From | Timothy Kendall |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Puzzling aspect of your (EXCELLENT) JavaScript Tutorial |
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| Date | 9 February 2010 20:10 |
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I was quite a long way into your tutorial before I realized that I was
missing a lot of links, because they look exactly like plain text. They are
not the usual blue, and they aren't underlined. A quick look at the page
source did not reveal any reason why this would be so. In order not to miss
any links, I pretty much have to mouseover the entire line to see when the
mouse pointer becomes a hand icon.
I wonder if this is intentional? I have never noticed this on any other
site.
I'm using Firefox 3.5.7 on Mac OSX ("Snow Leopard").
Whether you have time to answer this or not, I do want to say that yours is
some of the best tutorial prose I have ever seen in my 30 years of reading
such things.
Timothy Kendall
| From | Me |
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| To | Timothy Kendall |
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| Subject | Re: Puzzling aspect of your (EXCELLENT) JavaScript Tutorial |
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| Date | 12 February 2010 08:06 |
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Timothy,
> missing a lot of links [...] they aren't underlined.
They should be underlined, if your browser is set up to underline links by
default.
> I'm using Firefox 3.5.7 on Mac OSX ("Snow Leopard").
I have tested this, and I see underlines. I'm guessing that either you have
installed a user stylesheet that disables link underlines by default:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/userStyle.html
Or perhaps you have accidentally set the option that disables underlining of
links.
Go to about:config
Search for browser.underline_anchors
Ensure that the value is "true" (double click to change it)
If that fails, I'd suggest you report it to Mozilla, so they can investigate
it, since it would have to be a bug in Firefox.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | Timothy Kendall |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: Puzzling aspect of your (EXCELLENT) JavaScript Tutorial |
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| Date | 12 February 2010 15:11 |
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Thank you VERY much for the response. Actually, I'm somewhat embarrassed
that I didn't find the fix at the bottom right of the first JavaScript
Tutorial page. It wasn't immediately obvious to me what "Moosified" meant
(the default on that drop-down), and the "Style" bar above it resembled a
button that would take me to more prose, so it correspondingly wasn't clear
that I could solve the issue by just selecting a style from that list. Now
that I realize that "Style" is just a heading, and not a button, and that
"Moosified" is a style among other styles, I've just chosen one of the
styles that is much easier on my aging eyes.
So sorry to bother you with my incomplete understanding, and thanks again
for the response.
I'm about halfway through the JavaScript Tutorial ("Tutorial" seems an
inadequate word for such a tour-de-force, BTW) and I remain astounded at the
quality of it, not to mention the quantity and the level of detail. If the
name Tarquin is a reference to "the Proud", you have a greater claim to the
sobriquet than the original guy did.
Timothy