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Subject: Re: [doug@bagley.org: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in
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      A link face would not eliminate surprise for people
    who fail to pay any attention to the tooltip

We know of at least one example of a person for whom this is not so.

						 and it would override the
    current faces

Not at all.  Once face does not override another; the attributes are
merged.