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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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