Link hover

[Arty2]

Per Dave’s suggestion over at #43 (comment), I’m proposing a PR for colored links on hover.

It’s been 11 years since Jacob Nielsen’s guidelines and a lot of sites nowadays —notably Medium— don’t offer different styles for hover.

They may only be relevant to desktop users, but in my opinion hover styles are indispensable in how they strongly inform the reader that the underlined phrase they put their cursor on, is actually a link.

[crmackay]

I'm ok with a :hover style for links....though I'm not sure that using the same color as the sidenote numbers makes sense.

here is a showcase of some more creative link hover effects if you're interested in playing around with some thing a bit different. They would need to be adapted somehow to fit the aesthetic of tufte-css: http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeLinkEffects/

[daveliepmann]

I definitely don't want anything unusual or out of the ordinary for hover effects in this project.

I agree that a color change might make sense, but I'm really hesitant to use red. My instinct is to stick to greyscale.

[daveliepmann]

After refinements to project goals with regards to hyperlinks—specifically, emphasizing readability and unobtrusiveness—hover styles have become less compelling. Thanks for your contribution but I'm going to close this.