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andrewduckerPeople that use underlining in web pages.
Underlining means "This is a link, you can click on it, and if clicking on it doesn't work then your browser has probably crashed."
This has, admittedly, removed a method of emphasis from online use, but confusing people further by using a symbol in a way that its new context has redefined is just going to confuse and annoy your audience. It's the equivalent of using "Gay" to mean "Happy" in a Queer Studies tutorial.
Underlining means "This is a link, you can click on it, and if clicking on it doesn't work then your browser has probably crashed."
This has, admittedly, removed a method of emphasis from online use, but confusing people further by using a symbol in a way that its new context has redefined is just going to confuse and annoy your audience. It's the equivalent of using "Gay" to mean "Happy" in a Queer Studies tutorial.
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Date: 2006-04-14 10:03 am (UTC)Only as a default, you can switch it off. Come to think of it, you should be able to supply a user-stylesheet to your browser to render <u> as a dotted underline or something.