On Apr 10, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:

> May I express a personal wish that this behaviour be under
> user control ?  Whilst I fully understand David Baron's
> rationale for the change, I do not believe that it is the
> responsibility of browsers to work around security deficiencies
> that arise from the correct implementation of W3C standards.
> If the CSS, (X)HTML, and/or related (e.g., HTTP) specifications,
> either individually or when taken together, lead to a security
> deficiency, then this should be addressed at the specification
> level and not by mandatory changes to a browser which would
> cause the latter to deviate from the specification(s).

Wrong forum for browser feature request(s).

To remain on topic for this list, CSS 2.1:5.11.2 contains this sentence:
> UAs may therefore treat all links as unvisited links, or implement other 
> measures to preserve the user's privacy while rendering visited and unvisited 
> links differently.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#link-pseudo-classes

Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com/





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