On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:52:24PM +0000, Michael Lyubomirskiy wrote:
Jay R. Ashworth <jra@...> writes:
....
That's the browser's job; all of them do it these days.
Had someone not noticed?
No, not at all. You see, the browser just changes color of visited hyperlinks.
In other words: no, you hadn't noticed.
So if you visit 3 hyperlinks, they all get highlighted
as
visited. By contrast, TiggerScript highlights in green JUST
the link to the currently read section (whichever it is at any
given time). In fact, note that in my TiggerScript article (
http://www.michaelpundit.com/tech/TiggerScript.htm ) as well as in
other TiggerScript-ed articles the ToC has all links colored in black
to make them easier to read and to avoid the color mess that comes
from visited link highlighting.
Exercise:
Go to a web page with an unnumbered list of linked test items.
Click on a link.
Click BACK.
Note that there's a *visible highlight* on the link you most
recently clicked, usually a dashed blue box outlining it.
On inspection, I see that while IE still does this, FF appears not to
anymore. I wonder if that's my settings, or a general thing. Hmmm...
As for "the color mess that comes from visited link highlighting", how
dare you presume to know whether I prefer to be able to see where I've
been? What happens if I'm reading the articles pointed to in a long
list of links over several days?
If you think visited link highlighting is a Bad Thing, we haven't much
to say to one another...
That's as bad as the "TARGET=_NEW" contingent...
Cheers,
-- jra
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