Jay R. Ashworth <jra@...> writes:
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That's the browser's job; all of them do it these days.
Had someone not noticed?
Cheers,
No, not at all. You see, the browser just changes color of visited hyperlinks. 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.
Now, I am not arguing against visited link highlighting per se. It obviously has its uses in other contexts. I am saying that in this particular context the visited link highlighting is the wrong approach, whereas the TiggerScript way of highlighting just the currently read link is better.
Obviously it can be further extended, to have separate highlighting for visited (maybe even with classification by how long ago it was visited) and separate for currently read. But I do not think it will make any real additional contribution to readability.
Michael