Erik Moeller wrote:
Blue underlined, yes; purple is almost used nowhere these days. CNN, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay etc. all don't use it.
Yahoo does. (blue/purple, the old default)
Amazon doesn't. (blue/orange)
Ebay does. (blue/purpose, the old default)
CNN doesn't. (And their choice is particularly bad because visited and unvisited look so similar. blue/weird bluish greyish purple)
But I agree: it isn't those exact colors that matter, it's that links should instantly look like links, and visited links should instantly look like visited links.