English is wonderful language to breed misunderstanding. I don't want to change the visit count, just the appearance when a page is loaded. If the appearance goes with the count, then you are correct, I do not want to change it. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Thank you for your recommendation.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin French Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] loading links when loading a page. On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Kim Buttery wrote: > A number of my web pages insist that links I visited, when checking > them remain in the 'visited' state in the future. I would like the > links to revert to a none-visited state when a page loads. I believe > there should be an 'on load' instruction but I have not been able to > find the syntax in either my html references or the CSS references. > Can someone assist with the correct�syntax (? on load "a:link" ?)�and > tell me if it should be placed in the <head> content </head> area. > Thank you.. I'd really recommend against this, as it's changing the behaviour of the user's mail program -- generally a big no-no. For example, in Firefox 0.8's preferences, I can 'remember visited pages for the last N days'. It's a user preference, NOT a developer/site-owner preference. Of course there **MAY** be occasions where this is okay, I'd avoid it all costs if possible. Take the following example: 1. I visit a friends blog, and read the newest three posts... my browser remembers those last three posts as being visited, and offers a visual cue that this has happened. 2. I close the window, and leave the site. 3. I come back a few days later, and your script screws with the visited links, turning them all into fresh links. 4. Rather than glancing at each title/link and seeing that it is visited, I have to read the title/link, remember if I've read it, then decide what to do. If you personally want a different scenario for your browser, mess with your preferences, and set the history/visited pages preference to 0 or 1 days, and see how that goes, but please don't mess with my preferences :) --- Justin French http://indent.com.au ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
