Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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." > [snipped] > > 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) > > Feedback from implementers on this issue, particularly from Microsoft, > would be appreciated.
Option 2 is what I do - primarily because there is usually no global history available with which to evaluate the "visitedness" of links anyway (the history is a configurable option that I don't believe any of our users ever enable). > 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. I don't think that you can do that safely, as it changes the specification - specifically, it removes the guarantee that something can never match both the :visited and :link psuedos at the same, which could break existing content in subtle ways. -- Stewart Brodie Software Engineer ANT Software Limited
