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