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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by quazar on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:11PM (#20493986)
If the links are not highlighted by default, then tab navigation is basically non-existent since I cannot see where I'd be redirected and I personally bother to write custom CSS only for the websites I visit very often.

Is there an actual reason to disable highlighting? It lowers usability and accessibility, but I'm not sure what do you get in return?

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by StavrosK on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:19PM (#20494032)
Oops, I'll fix that, thank you. I'm assuming the designer thought it looked "better".

Also I use Vimium so I never noticed, since that mode of navigation is much faster.

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by extra88 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:30PM (#20494365)
> Is there an actual reason to disable highlighting?

Some browsers, Chrome especially, show the focus outline when elements are clicked with a mouse and some people think it looks unacceptably bad.

Focus-visible is a CSS property meant to solve that but it’s only supported in Firefox and requires browser heuristics to do the right thing.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-focus-visible

https://css-tricks.com/keyboard-only-focus-styles/

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