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Posted by Peter J Ross on 08/31/07 18:43
In alt.html on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:10:31 -0400, Nikita the Spider
<NikitaTheSpider@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I was convinced that it wasn't, but I was wrong.
> On my Mac, Firefox 1.5 colors the links visited
> without a refresh.
Same in Iceweasel 2.0.0.6 on Debian, which has the same rendering
engine as Firefox.
> 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
Same in Konqueror 3.5.7, which has the same rendering engine as
Safari.
> Determining the behavior of other browsers is left as an exercise for
> the reader. :)
Opera 9.23 behaves like Safari and Konqueror.
I have no idea about IE, and frankly don't mind much if it breaks.
> HTH
It helps a lot to clarify the problem, thanks.
--
PJR :-)
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