On 2010-04-10 Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
> In short, those browsers will limit the ways the a:visited
> state can be styled. Color, background-color, and to some
> extend, outline, border are not affected, as long as you don't
> use alpha-transparency (rgba()), change the border-style or
> border-width, etc. Other changes will be ignored and fall back
> to what is specified for the a:link state.
>
This autumn, I got into my head to style local and external
links differently. First those intrusive ad popups stole
double "underlining". Have the sniffers stolen all reasonable
options now?!
From the dbaron.com page:
"For properties that are not permitted ..., the style for
unvisited links is used instead."
It's not clear to me what this means. Which ones of
the following statements will be true?
1) A rule for :visited won't be used at all if
any disallowed property is used in it.
2) Disallowed properties can't at all be applied to
visited links.
3) Disallowed properties can be used for :visited, but
only if they share all their values with :link.
4) Disallowed properties can be applied to visited links,
but only by inheriting them from rules using a plain
"a" selector with no pseudo-selector(s).
5) Disallowed properties can be applied to visited links
by inheriting them from containing elements.
I'd guess (4/5) are true and the others false, based on how
plain "a", a:link and a:visited selectors interact at
present. If (3) is false many existing rules using
"a:link, a:visited" selectors will break, but it's probably
very hard to engineer things so that it's true without
affecting loading times and hence safety.
If (4/5) are false as well it has really come to bad times,
since then color will be the only way to make links stand
out! I am of the links-and-only-links-should-be-underlined
persuasion, but mostly because inverse video is already the
best way to make (un)visited links stand out for those with
color vision problems if you want to use font shapes for
their traditional emphasis purposes, not to mention that
font style changes rewrap the text. Will RV now be the
only way to make (visited) links stand out clearly at all?
I made a comment elaborating this on the blog.mozilla.com
entry Philippe linked.
/BP
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