In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Jun 2008 Tim Hill wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael > > Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One of the things that I truly miss after Fresco is that when I had > >> a list of Google finds, once I had read it, the colour changed to a > >> darker shade of blue. So I didn't go back and read the same find > >> again. But now I do. An irritation! The marker doesn't have to be a > >> change in colour, anything would do. Some people have difficulties > >> with colour, my brother is red-green colour blind, so I am very > >> aware of it, though it's not my problem. > > I don't know how the developers feel about the urgency of this one > > but I would have thought it a pretty fundamental function of any > > helpful hypertext browser to indicate (usually with colour) any > > visited links, including those on legacy pages. > > This may be under the catch-all "HTML4 - Nearly Done" and "CSS 1 - > > Nearly Done". vlink is also present in HTML5 so perhaps we must but > > wait. > I think the problem is that the developers have chosen to implement > HTML4 and CSS before HTML1. Link colours in the <body> tag are > ignored. This is a long standing issue. Indeed. I always wonder about all those non-css pre-HTML4 pages with _only_ body tags? -- Tim Hill, www.timil.com
