On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 05:13:44PM -0400, Bob Rosenberg wrote: > Also IMO the feature should be OFF unless the user SPECIFICALLY > activates it (not set to ON requiring the user to turn it off to > cripple it). > > IOW: If you want to have the Browser play Net Nanny then require the > user to give permission not do it behind the user's back until the > browser is told to stop messing with the page/code and display it as > supplied.
And I disagree entirely. Especially for something so minor as the ability to make visited links look nothing at all like unvisited links[1], software should be secure by default and require users to deliberately choose to enable less secure modes of operation, not the other way around. [1] The changes described still allow you to visually distinguish visited vs. unvisited links, provided that they still look basically the same. I don't see losing the ability to shrink visited links to a microscopic font or replace their backgrounds with biohazard warnings to be any big loss. Certainly not a big enough loss to warrant knowingly choosing a default behavior which is known to put users' privacy at risk. -- Dave Sherohman ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
