Std docs links are not all highlighted

[mdinger]

Std doc links should have colors to highlight that they are links:

Some users find it difficult to know which items are links.

[EDIT] Removed sidebar circles. Never thought they needed changing.

[mdinger]

Primitive type f32 has the same issue:

[EDIT] Removed sidebar circles. Never thought they needed changing.

[nightpool]

Totally agree. Also, instead of colors, we could use dashed underlines to indicate links while still keeping the same feel. (I disagree about the sidebar as well, I think its normal to expect those to be links, because they're in a sidebar without any text)

[spencerdeinum]

Sidebar is fine, thats a pretty normal convention to have those as links.

At first glance I didn't realize most of the text in the main doc area was clickable however, I really like the idea of having the dashed underlines.

+1

[mdinger]

Didn't think sidebar necessarily should change. Was just highlighting black links. Edited pictures to removed sidebar circles.

[nightpool]

Really quick mockup:

It doesn't show in the screenshot, but the last bool has the mouse over it, so it's darker.

[nightpool]

code is

#main a {
    border-bottom: dashed 2px #aaa;
}
#main a:hover {
    border-bottom-color: black;
}

and maybe some sort of style so it doesn't show up on the [src] link

[mdinger]

CC: @steveklabnik
Don't have a branch but this is probably a straightforward fix if you decide on a style. Or if you like nightpool's suggestion.

[steveklabnik]

I like that style, I think. I am bad at looks, though.

[mdinger]

@nightpool If there are any other decent styles worth pursuing (different brown variant, solid underline, combo, red...I'm just guess here), a quick mockup of them would allow easy compare and contrast. It would allow an easier/faster decision.

[Manishearth]

+1 from me

[mdinger]

I'm currently playing with rustdoc. I may try to implement this once the docs are built.