399743 - Don't surround active links with dots

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 377320

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Charles]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.23 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Build Identifier: 

I think it's not easthetic at all to surround active links with dots (when you click a link or a linked image, it is surrounded by a dotted border. Why not removing this?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The focus ring is important for keyboard accessibility, and it helps you know when you've successfully clicked on a link.  You can turn it off locally using a user style sheet if you want, although I don't think user stylesheets give you a way to distinguish between keyboard-set focus (which you might still want a focus ring for) and click-set focus.

Comment 2

[Charles]

Here's my take: I agree that when you use the keyboard to browse, it's useful, so we could enable this feature only when the user activates the link using the keyboard. If he used the mouse, as the mouse is over the link when he clicks, he knows where he clicked and he knows that he clicked. 99% of webmasters don't disable this focus ring. What do you think about my suggestion to distinguish keyboard and mouse-set focus?