[comiCSS] Visited Link
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TIL, thanks
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For those who are curious about its history, this is where it all began for the visited links to be that color by default.
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 02:38:29 -0500
Subject: NCSA Mosaic 0.13 released.
- Changed default anchor representations: blue and single solid underline for unvisited, dark purple and single dashed underline for visited.
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That I don't want any website customizing the color, font etc. of links. Therefore, they shouldn't need access to any properties of those objects after they have been created.
You can use user styles for that
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For those who are curious about its history, this is where it all began for the visited links to be that color by default.
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 02:38:29 -0500
Subject: NCSA Mosaic 0.13 released.
- Changed default anchor representations: blue and single solid underline for unvisited, dark purple and single dashed underline for visited.
A dashed underline would make it a lot better and accessible. Don't think I've seen a browser do that by default
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I like to style visited links blue and unvisited links purple, just to mess with people.
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great example of a code smell, too!
JS needs to know about styles?shouldn't be styling in JS! make it asd/remove a class instead
need to know whether to load content or not? save it to local/session storage! don't make a server call if it already exists!
need to enhance your tracking? include it with your payloads as it happens, you're asking for race conditions
client side disabled local caching? great! working as intended. make a graceful fall-back
everything here is a short term problem that belies long term tech debt. tight coupling sounds sexy, but SOLID principals and The Law of Demeter exist to stop our codebases from rotting
if we can't change it, then it's not software it's hardwareJS needs to know about styles?
It's about JS trying to detect if the link was visited, not about style. People used to do that to evade cross-site tracking protection, and this is why JS isn't allowed to know that anymore.
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JS needs to know about styles?
It's about JS trying to detect if the link was visited, not about style. People used to do that to evade cross-site tracking protection, and this is why JS isn't allowed to know that anymore.
This. Did a seminar on these techniques during my it security degree. Porn sites invented that to detect people that use competing sites.
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great example of a code smell, too!
JS needs to know about styles?shouldn't be styling in JS! make it asd/remove a class instead
need to know whether to load content or not? save it to local/session storage! don't make a server call if it already exists!
need to enhance your tracking? include it with your payloads as it happens, you're asking for race conditions
client side disabled local caching? great! working as intended. make a graceful fall-back
everything here is a short term problem that belies long term tech debt. tight coupling sounds sexy, but SOLID principals and The Law of Demeter exist to stop our codebases from rotting
if we can't change it, then it's not software it's hardwaregreat example of a code smell, too! JS needs to know about styles?
shouldn't be styling in JS!
But what if I want to use JSSS?
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JS needs to know about styles?
It's about JS trying to detect if the link was visited, not about style. People used to do that to evade cross-site tracking protection, and this is why JS isn't allowed to know that anymore.
hence the comment about tracking
anything more than recording your events as they happen are a security and privacy risk -
Sheesh, because of their colors at the bottom my mind interpreted purple and blue as purple and yellow and it got me hella confused
