|  | Posted by Els on 06/04/05 23:19 
Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
 > "Els" <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> skrev i meddelandet
 > news:1nx4w9trz73zw.6bros26nhdbc.dlg@40tude.net...
 >> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
 >>
 >>> "Dylan Parry" <usenet@dylanparry.com> skrev i meddelandet
 >>> news:3gefrgFbtuadU1@individual.net...
 >>>> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
 >>>>> Can I define how long a certain item ( for example a visited link)
 >>> shall
 >>>>> not be displayed?
 >>>>
 >>>> You cannot. The browser history, of which visited links is a part of,
 > is
 >>>> a browser setting and not something that you, the page author, can
 >>>> change for your users. Why would you wish to hide visited links from
 > the
 >>>> user anyway?
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> Because there are many links in the menu and I think that it should help
 > me
 >>> if I were the user if they would not be shown after they have been
 > clicked
 >>> the first time.
 >>> However, they should appear again. So, do they appear once a section or
 > once
 >>> to each user?
 >>
 >> You mean you never surfed a site, went to page 1, clicked 'back' and
 >> thought, wait, I didn't read all on page 1, I wanna see it again ?
 >
 >
 > Well, the user must have used the link the first time in order that it can
 > be a visited link, so he has already been once on that page but, may-be he
 > wants to visit it after 10 minutes because he wants to check up something on
 > that page again, so I think that it would be good if he could actively
 > choose to display the visited links again or if they would appear again
 > after 15 minutes, for example.
 
 I would really hate it if I had to wait for links to come back. Also I
 wouldn't expect it, so I would just get totally lost, looking for that
 link, and soon (if not at once) give up.
 
 Just take my word for it; the user does not want to be more confused.
 
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