The underlining is important for accessibility (e.g. what if the user is color
blind?).
Julian Foad wrote:
> Ariel Arjona wrote:
>
>> Attached is the patch to add the a:visited section to the book CSS file.
>>
>> This is so visited links appear in the color defined by the user's
>> browser settings. Right now they all appear blue.
>
>
> Huh? It looks like it will make them purple, not (necessarily) the
> color defined by the user's browser settings. I assume the reason for
> this patch is to make them distinguishable from non-visited links;
> without the patch, both types of link are blue.
>
> I will modify the log message (r9066) because I believe every log
> message should state the reason for the change, and I will give the
> reason that I assume to be true. I trust that one of you will correct
> me if I'm wrong.
>
> - Julian
>
>
>> Index: temp/styles.css
>> ===================================================================
>> --- temp/styles.css (revision 9060)
>> +++ temp/styles.css (working copy)
>> @@ -79,6 +79,12 @@
>> text-decoration: underline;
>> }
>>
>> +A:visited +{
>> + color: purple;
>> + text-decoration: underline;
>> +}
>> +
>> IMG
>> {
>> border: none;
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Received on Tue Mar 16 01:13:37 2004