My oh my, Kevin Basil is at it again.

The object of his rant this time is the (mis)use of text-decoration : none; and text-decoration : underline; in site stylesheets.

You can find his rant here. I disagree with him in part, I think he should have said that you should leave text-decoration alone if that is the only system you have in place for distinguishing links from normal text.

Since good accessability calls for multiple mechanisms for this, whether or not to force decoration is sort of a moo point; you know thier cows, there opinion doesn't matter... it is a moo point.

And another thing there paly, I as well as many other designer o' the web painstakingly create every aspect of thier site design, and try to ensure that it is rendered the same on as many browsers as possible; this carries down to even the color of the text, link or no, and whether or not text-decorations are used and in my case where and when they are used. I am not concerned if my stylesheet overrules the preferences of the user since I want them to view my vision of my website when they are here.

My use of forcing decoration in my stylesheet does not detract from accessability or usability, because they are numerous hooks in place here that denote function. So the real place individuals like our former employer fall on thier face is the area of redundant accessability, the problem is not the use of decoration forcing but the lack of good design and planning.