Towards a more perfect link underline
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#3http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/b...
The whole premise of this paper about Buridan's ass principle is wrong. That is to say, its assumption of continuity. A simple strategy of "always go to the right after you haven't made a firm decision after X time" leads to a discontinuous function, violating their assumption. It is trivially possible for strategies to lead to discontinuous decision functions, undermining the whole idea.
The author tries to report that "you aren't sure if you've decided or not after X time", but doesn't go very deeply into it, and clings to the assumption of continuity. In fact, one can always be sure whether they've made a FIRM decision or not by a certain time, in the same way the author has X_t(1) = 1 for all t.
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I don't usually use mobile and my monitors are not stacked tall enough yet to avoid scrolling. I often struggle with pages that have a fixed heading and scrolling body that doesn't usually seem to scroll the correct amount and the header blocks the top part of what I am reading. I think that overlay of translucent links works quite well. It doesn't detract from what I am reading, maximizes the vertical height, and scrolls correctly.
Re: Towards a more perfect link underline
#5http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/b... The whole premise of this paper about Buridan's ass principle is wrong. That is to say, its assumption of continuity. A simple strategy of "always go to the right after you haven't made a firm decision after X time" leads to a discontinuous function, violating their assumption. It is trivially possible for strategies to lead to discontinuous decision fun…
I think this may belong in a different submission.
Re: Towards a more perfect link underline
#6lgtm
I really like the selection color-change, but I'm not sold on the actual CSS :/
It's too bad line-height doesn't work so great, because that feels like a great solution.
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#7I really do not like this.
It breaks the assumption (wrong word? Intuitive guess?) that one underline == one link.
Which means that every time I look at the link I do a doubletake trying to figure out why there are 6+ links in that word.
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#8another recent blog post on this topic with some nice examples: http://eager.io/blog/smarter-link-underlines/
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#9I really do not like this. It breaks the assumption (wrong word? Intuitive guess?) that one underline == one link. Which means that every time I look at the link I do a doubletake trying to figure out why there are 6+ links in that word.
Fair enough. Of course, the counterpoint is that for others who do not have that particular reaction, the overall effect of having less intersecting lines (better separation between characters and text decorations) is one of less clutter, and, arguably, heightened readability.
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#10lgtm I really like the selection color-change, but I'm not sold on the actual CSS :/ It's too bad line-height doesn't work so great, because that feels like a great solution.
Do you mean border bottom in conjunction with reduced line-height as a solution for link underlines? Or something else?