It’s blue, it’s an address . . .
September 30th, 2003
But it’s not a link! I am rather tired of Read Me and help files under OS X that have Web and e-mail address links colored with the default browser link colors, but do not function as actual links. If you are writing a help file in which addresses will be displayed, write it in HTML. I don’t know if the situation has changed any in 10.3, but Apple really ought to make it possible for documents authors to include working URL links in RTF files.
Safari, Camino, and OmniWeb’s “Open URL” services are handy, but not nearly as simple as clicking on a text link.
I’ve actually seen some HTML documents (!) in which links were colored blue and underlined but not actual links. Yes, that’s right: <FONT COLOR=”BLUE”><U> rather than a simple <A HREF>.
Obviously this was product of someone armed with a WYSIWYG editor but without a clue…