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Re:Towards a more perfect link underline by psychometry on Monday December 01, 2014 @12:19AM (#8679637)
Maybe there's something wrong with your browser. The underline style is only interrupted slightly for descenders. It continues through spaces and other punctuation like it does normally. It looks nothing like a phrase with each word underlined individually.
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Re:Towards a more perfect link underline by garrettgrimsley on Monday December 01, 2014 @12:41AM (#8679697)
There's nothing wrong with their browser, they are talking about a single word, not phrase, being composed of multiple links.

As HN does not support markup I'll attempt to demonstrate with underlines. Imagine that each slice seperated by underlines is a seperate link.

_Su_p_ercalifra_g_alisticex_p_ialdocious_

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Re:Towards a more perfect link underline by psychometry on Monday December 01, 2014 @12:49AM (#8679709)
The only characters that introduce separation in a standard typeface are the ones with descenders: q, y, p, g, j, and some punctuation characters.

I have no idea why you think i_f, r_a, c_e, or almost any of the other pairs of letters in your example would have a discontinuous underline.

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Re:Towards a more perfect link underline by garrettgrimsley on Monday December 01, 2014 @01:16AM (#8679773)
Edited, better?

They are saying that currently if there is a break in the underline it is understood that the two underlined portions of the word are two different links.

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