I called B.S. Send rude e-mail to somebody by mistake. Now I'm the bad guy for objecting. Need external validation badly. - Amyloo

I don't know, but I would trust your judgement - Hilary Talbot

Appreciate the support, Hil. Also getting a sore throat and it's making me cranky. Wouldn't it be nice if you could bring in an expert for 30 seconds to do the Marshall McLuhan validation thing in Annie Hall? That would be a good service to offer over the internet, wouldn't it? Get a stable of top-flight experts in a number of fields and hire them out expressly for things like this, not by the hour but by the minute so the poor worker bees like me could afford to haul them in. - Amyloo

Yes, nice idea. Hope you feel better soon. - Hilary Talbot

If they're putting a style tag on every link, then that should be in a stylesheet. Inline styles (i.e., using the style attribute within HTML markup) is generally considered sloppy. - Dan MacTough

Thank you, Dan. How've you been? - Amyloo

Seeing as how this will get cross-posted to Twitter and Facebook, I think I will respond by email. :-) - Dan MacTough

I would agree that best practice would be for this to be in a stylesheet. However, it's far from uncommon to have inline styles on every link, especially when the html's generated by script. Sad to say poor practice ≠ uncommon. - cori

Yeah, Cori, but why actually answer the question if the answer doesn't support your position? Answer a different question! :-) - Dan MacTough