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It's a shame that the solution isn't shared and isn't public.

If they've a cross-browser and widely supported way of making underlines in text be more readable, then it would be great if they offered this knowledge to the wider web by sharing it, as readability is an issue that affects everyone.

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My quick attempt: http://jsfiddle.net/41s1wqhs/

Only tested on OSX.

Tried to make it work on links and couldn't. Care to give it a try?

This works for me http://jsfiddle.net/41s1wqhs/7/

I am sorry I did not explain myself well. I meant it without the H1, a regular link on a paragraph.

Ah, right. http://jsfiddle.net/41s1wqhs/19/

I should note that this means links that span multiple words wont break. That can easily be fixed with a little more effort though. My point is this is concept is very easy to do with css, especially when you have control of the exact font and size it's rendering in, like Medium does.

Excellent, thanks!

Here: http://jsfiddle.net/41s1wqhs/18/

Links are blue, and turn red on hover.

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