[nikatwork]

I appreciate the minimalism of flat UI, but I do feel the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction.

Microsoft is the worst culprit here - presenting a text block containing some hyperlinks, but the text is all styled identically so you have to hover the mouse over a word to notice the link. WTF?

Sure, let's keep things clean and minimal, but there needs to be some kind of basic visual language that indicates "this bit is interactive, and this other bit is static content".

Somewhere, Jakob Nielsen is having an aneurysm.

[hobs]

That shit drives me insane. I should not have to hover over or consume 100% of your content to determine what is and what is not a link.

[dredmorbius]

the text is all styled identically so you have to hover the mouse over a word to notice the link. WTF?

Affordance of hyperlinks is key to the Web.

I apply the following CSS to most/many sites to identify links:

        a {
            color: #427fed;
            text-decoration: none;
        };

        a:active {
            background-color: #427fed;
            color: #fffff6;
        };

        a:hover {
            text-decoration: underline;
        }

Hrm. I should add a :visited selector as well.

[dredmorbius]

I'm liking this color:

    a:visited { color: #6f32ad; }