News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photos alt text.

Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo... by O__________O on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:59AM (#32341736)
Meta: Super confusing how the way the links are formatted makes them look like strikethrough-text; this link explains the term if you’re not familiar with it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo... by ldjb on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:20AM (#32341878)
The links appear underlined for me (using Firefox), not strikethroughed, and look perfectly fine.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo... by O__________O on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:29AM (#32341941)
Appears to be related to text-size settings, since if I enlarge the text, issue disappears.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo... by ldjb on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:31AM (#32341963)
Interesting. I know a lot of websites are designed with a font size of 16pt in mind, and you'll tend to encounter issues if you set the size to anything else. I find that rather a shame.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo... by O__________O on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:41AM (#32342051)
Used the same text settings for years, never seen this issue before.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo... by curlftpfs on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:18AM (#32343243)
Yeah, devs use `border-bottom` to get fancy but often don't test edge cases where it causes a strikethrough instead of an underline
[ Parent | on HN ]