It will be a universal issue of a link appearing as visited when it is also referenced in a link tag in the head section in IE 7. This is not really an RSS issue (as far as I know).
Regards, Kepler -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Horowitz Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] strange css behavior So this will be a universal issue RSS in IE 7? Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Kepler Gelotte wrote: > Hi Michael, > > The problem appears to be that Internet Explorer gets confused by the link > being also referenced in the <head> section with the <link> tag. I think it > is assuming it has read the contents of the link (which it doesn't because I > traced HTTP requests). A simple test shows that this is the case. Copy the > HTML below into a file and clear your history in IE. When you first open the > page all links are blue. Refreshing the page turns the RSS links red. > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; dir="ltr"> > > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > > <title>test page</title> > > <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Posts on > 'The Atomic Conservative' (Atom)" > href="http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/my_weblog/atom.xml"; /> > <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Posts on > 'The Atomic Conservative' (RSS 1.0)" > href="http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf"; /> > <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Posts on > 'The Atomic Conservative' (RSS 2.0)" > href="http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/my_weblog/rss.xml"; /> > > > <style type="text/css"> > a:link > { > color: #00F; > } > > a:visited > { > color: #F00; > } > > a:hover > { > color: #FF0; > } > > a:active > { > color: #0FF; > } > </style> > </head> > > <body> > <div id="wrapper"> > <p>Regular Link: <a > href="http://www.google.com";>Google</a></p> > <p>RSS Link: <a > href="http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf";>Atomic > Feed</a></p> > <p>XML RSS Link: <a > href="http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/my_weblog/atom.xml";>Atomic > XML Feed</a></p> > </div> > </body> > </html> > > > > If you comment out the <link> for the feeds, they no longer show as visited > when you refresh the page. I suggest using an icon for the RSS feed instead > of the test link. > > Regards, > Kepler > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Michael Horowitz > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WSG] strange css behavior > > People may remember I'm working on an issue where when I click on one > link on my site http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/ other links > such as Subscribe to this blogs feed turn red as if they were visited. > > Doing more testing I started changing the page without clicking on the > link (ie putting the address directly in the browser) and the problem > still occurs. I'm wondering if this gives anyone an idea what I should > look at. > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
