Hi,
The current Selectors API draft states:
"... user agents may treat all links as unvisited links, or implement
other measures to preserve the user’s privacy."
I have noticed that to address this issue, Microsoft's implementation in
the current IE8 beta, both :link and :visited pseudo-classes are being
completely ignored. That approach would technically fall under "other
measures to preserve the user’s privacy", but it seems like it could be
an interoperability issue.
Current WebKit builds and our internal Opera builds don't take any
action. Both :link and :visited return unvisited and visted links,
respectively. This also appears to be the approach Mozilla are planning
to take [1]. I think we need to be interoperable with our handling of this.
I'm considering adjusting the spec to allow just two options, and making
IE8's behaviour non-conforming.
Either:
1. Match unvisited and visted links normally with :link and :visited,
respecitively.
2. Match all links with :link, and no links with :visted (i.e. treat all
links as unvisited)
Another option would be to effectively treat :link and :visited as
synonymous and match all links with both, but I'm not so comfortable
with that.
Feedback from implementers on this issue, particularly from Microsoft,
would be appreciated.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416317#c16
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Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
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