7:55 p.m.
on a page with several links, the colour of a link used to change to
indicate it had already been visited -- which was a good idea.
is it just my imagination, or has this ceased to work?
i'm using the latest test build (r12740), having noticed the lack of
colour change on r12670 earlier today.
the "visited link" indication would be especially helpful at the
moment while i'm sifting through a couple of pages of Google results
to find the best version of some information i need.
the problem seems to manifest on XP Firefox too, not just Netsurf.
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10:43 p.m.
On 5 Sep 2011 Jim Nagel wrote:
on a page with several links, the colour of a link used to change to
indicate it had already been visited -- which was a good idea.
is it just my imagination, or has this ceased to work?
I think you're right. It has stopped working.
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3:08 p.m.
The following bytes were arranged on 5 Sep 2011 by Richard Porter :
On 5 Sep 2011 Jim Nagel wrote:
> on a page with several links, the colour of a link used to change to
> indicate it had already been visited -- which was a good idea.
> is it just my imagination, or has this ceased to work?
I think you're right. It has stopped working.
I think you're both wrong. 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.
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.
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2:36 a.m.
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?
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7:20 a.m.
In article <34eb3e0f52.jim(a)nails.abbeypress.net>,
Jim Nagel <netsurf(a)abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
[Snippy]
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).
It does work in Firefox, but with all the quick updates...ATM it's a bit
dodgy... But you can tweak it.
Menubar - Tools - Options. "Content" Tab.
Open the Fonts & Colors "Colors" button and have a play.
Dave
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7:05 p.m.
In article <520f58e40cdave(a)triffid.co.uk>, Dave Symes
<dave(a)triffid.co.uk> wrote:
In article <34eb3e0f52.jim(a)nails.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel
<netsurf(a)abbeypress.co.uk> wrote: [Snippy]
> 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).
It does work in Firefox, but with all the quick updates...ATM
it's a
bit dodgy... But you can tweak it.
Menubar - Tools - Options. "Content" Tab.
Open the Fonts & Colors "Colors" button and have a
play.
This is interesting and made me check XP/FF (7.0 beta) which certainly
does correctly colour visited links and I have not changed its default
settings. The page I first looked at declares these and other colours in
its <body> tag.
Don't I remember that NetSurf's page colours must be set with CSS as the
<body> tag stuff isn't well supported? Or something?
I didn't think NS's visited link colours have ever been enabled.
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10:35 a.m.
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 01:36 +0100, Jim Nagel wrote:
Now I'm curious: what mechanism is involved, and why is it
difficult
for Netsurf?
It's not difficult -- we've had an implementation in the sources for at
least two years. The trouble is, it's disabled because it increases page
load times significantly. Enabling it is dependent on two things:
1) Changing the way NetSurf handles URLs internally
2) libdom
Don't expect either of those changes to happen soon.
Is it perhaps that CSS lacks the feature and overrides
the earlier system which catered for visited links?
No. CSS has support for visited links.
John-Mark.
11:16 a.m.
In article <1315470958.8060.13.camel@duiker>,
John-Mark Bell <jmb(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> Now I'm curious: what mechanism is involved, and why is it
difficult
> for Netsurf?
It's not difficult -- we've had an implementation in the
sources for at
least two years. The trouble is, it's disabled because it increases page
load times significantly. Enabling it is dependent on two things:
Well, speed is far more important to me.
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Stuart Winsor
1:08 p.m.
lists wrote on 8 Sep:
Well, speed is far more important to me.
i'd have to agree with that.
so on the occasional occasions when visited-link-visible is really
useful to me, i can always load up Fresco or try Dave Triffid's trick
with Firefox.
thanks for the explification, John.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
3:39 p.m.
In article <15cf780f52.jim(a)nails.abbeypress.net>,
Jim Nagel <netsurf(a)abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
lists wrote on 8 Sep:
> Well, speed is far more important to me.
i'd have to agree with that.
so on the occasional occasions when visited-link-visible is really
useful to me, i can always load up Fresco or try Dave Triffid's trick
with Firefox.
thanks for the explification, John.
Jim, a fella on the Firefox Newsgroup suggested the add-on "NoSquint"
2.1.2 which I've just installed and yes among all the things it does, it
does indeedy reliably set the URL and visited URL colours.
Not had chance to test it proper like, as I must get back to work.
Dave
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