Why is Google Reader making some links have bold underlines?

June 20, 2007 5:25 PM

Why is Google Reader making some links have bold underlines?

I've been reading Google Reader for a long while now, ever since they reworked it after the initial crappy release. Today, something weird is occuring: random links in random posts from random feeds (random, oh my) are being styled with a really bold underline. Other links appear as they always have. Here's a screenshot of what I mean:

flickr shot

Does anyone have any idea what's causing this?

posted by JoshTeeters to computers & internet (2 comments total)

I just noticed it on mine too. It seems to be only for links that are in the last line of the post, and only for some of those. On mine (and also in your flickred screenshot), there's something similar going on with all the letters that drop down below the text (g, y, j, etc.). So it's not an actual heavier underline, but some kind of display error.

I can only find one post that does it, and I can't find anything unique about that post, except that there seems to be less space between the last line of the post and the end-of-post bar that Google Reader puts in. At first I noticed its text is not enclosed in a <p> tag and instead it ends and goes straight to </div>. I thought that might be it, but some other posts in my Reader also end the same way and don't display the same behavior, so now I'm not sure why some posts show less space like that.
posted by Partial Law at 10:13 PM on June 20, 2007

Just an update on this: while reading all of my feeds this morning, I didn't see any of the weird display issues. Whether the problem just didn't crop up, or whether Google fixed it overnight, I don't know.
posted by JoshTeeters at 8:11 AM on June 21, 2007