(public service announcement) Both the next release versions of Gecko (tentatively named Firefox 3.7) and WebKit (Safari 5) will implement changes to the handling of the :visited pseudo-class. Google Chrome will, I suppose, also implement this.
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. The underlying thinking is documented in this article: http://dbaron.org/mozilla/visited-privacy with some more details here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-coming-to-css-vistited/ http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css-history-leak/ Gecko bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777 WebKit bug report: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24300 Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
