Posted by Nikita the Spider on 08/31/07 14:10

In article <slrnfdg4m3.9fe.pjr@pjr.gotdns.org>,
Peter J Ross <pjr@example.invalid> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> Please see <http://pjr.gotdns.org/verse/16-poems>.
>
> If I click one of the links in the "Contents" list at the top, then
> click the "top" link in the bar at the bottom, the link from
> "Contents" isn't marked visited, and neither is the link in the
> navigation bar.
>
> However, if I then refresh the page, the links are marked visited.
>
> Is this normal behaviour, or am I doing something wrong?

Browser-dependent. On my Mac, Firefox 1.5 colors the links visited
without a refresh. Interestingly, Safari 2 doesn't even color them after
a refresh. The only way I can get S to color the link as visited is by
including it in the URL, e.g.:
http://pjr.gotdns.org/verse/16-poems#eldest-brother

Determining the behavior of other browsers is left as an exercise for
the reader. :)

HTH

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Philip
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