more on Someone at Yahoo doesn't get it

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Steven Champeon <schampeo () hesketh com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:22:50 -0500
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, <ole () cisco com>
Subject: Re: [IP] i Someone at Yahoo doesn't get it

on Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:14:28PM -0500, David Farber wrote:
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> From: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>
> Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:57:34 -0800 (PST)
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Someone at Yahoo doesn't get it
>
>
> For IP if you like:
>
> I've been using MyYahoo! for years. It's a nice customizable "portal"
> where I can get my choice of news, weather, stocks, currencies and all
> that good stuff.
>
> A few days ago I noticed that all the headline links, in fact almost
> EVERYTHING on the page is now _____underlined_____
>
>
> I hate underlined links, in fact it is the main reason I don't use
> Safari. Underlining is supposed to be a user set-able option, it is in
> most browsers. Yahoo has somehow mananged to bypass that by making the
> underlines part of the HTML. Ugh.

In Safari, you can set a user style sheet. Go to Preferences, Advanced.
See the "Style Sheet" picker? Set that to a file in which you've placed
the following CSS:

a:link {
 text-decoration: none;
}

a:visited {
 text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
 text-decoration: none;
}

a:active {
 text-decoration: none;
}

I'd recommend sticking it into ~/Library/Application Support/Safari;
I named mine 'default.css'.

To override yahoo's styles, you may also need to add:

.ymymd a{text-decoration:none !important;}

to this file. 
 
I agree that it's too bad that Yahoo shows it cares less about its users'
preferences than its own. Maybe they can spend some of the recent record
earnings on actually serving the people who made it possible?

HTH,
Steve

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