Christian Grobmeier wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > The Incubator website has many documentation pages and sections. > ... > > Another aspect that needs attention is the recent changes > > to link colours, which have removed the ability to know > > where one has been. > ... > > It is important to be able to know which parts of the > > documentation have already been visited. > > Thanks for bringing it up again.
I am raising it in the context of the whole site. > Looking at the references I don't think we need other colors for > visited links. Good for you. [ snipped stuff about other issues ] > Another reason I don't see the need to change visited link colors is > the nature of the docs. I mean they are docs. Do you read docs only > one time? Not me, I read it often, it is unnecessary for know where I > was already. This is only necesasry if I have the same link pointing > to a page a thousand times. Another reason for a different colour is when the same link appears many times on the one page, as happens with many of our documentation. Visit it once only. The visited-links principle also applies within each document. If someone wants to thoroughly read a document, especially over a number of sittings, then they should be able to use the table-of-contents to know the sections that they have not yet read. This usability principle is even more important for documentation. -David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
