Martin Bazley wrote on 6 Sep: > Whatever Jim's problem with XP Firefox was, it was presumably this which > inspired him to try NetSurf and observe for the first time that this > feature was unimplemented.
Actually I noticed first on Netsurf and then tried XP Firefox. The "visited link" feature is lacking on both. Tuesday's particular search made me wish for the feature: I wanted to compare the many various results, and it would have helped to know which ones i had already looked at (especially after refining the search criteria). > NetSurf has never had any support for the 'visited' link colour, nor > will it do for the foreseeable future. The 'active' link colour is > also non-functional. I loaded up Netsurf 1.1 to check, and it seems Martin is right. I'm a bit astonished, for I remember the feature in the past. So loaded up good old Fresco -- and it does work there, on the same Google search. Interestingly, I found a site where lots of Google Chrome users complain the feature doesn't work for them either. Now I'm curious: what mechanism is involved, and why is it difficult for Netsurf? Is it perhaps that CSS lacks the feature and overrides the earlier system which catered for visited links? -- Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
