In <URL:news:local.netsurf> on Thu 05 Jun, Richard Porter 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. >
Michael's question isn't a link colour in a <body> tag question. Surely it is a browser setting to change the colour of a link which has been followed. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
