visted verses not yet visited hyperlinks in the resulting html pages

[Doug Smythies]

Hi Kevin, and thanks for your reply.

On 2013.08.15 Kevin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net>
wrote:
>> Personally, I very much like previously visited links
>> to be a different color. Often, it is the only way I can find
>> my path back to somewhere.

> I like different colors for visited and unvisited links, too, for the
> same reason.

>> Does anybody know the history or why there is no color difference?

> I'm afraid not.

>> Note: I have gone through the entire 84 megabyte doc team e-mail
>> archives looking for historical information, but didn't find
>> anything particularly useful (something might be there, but if it
>> is, I didn't find it).

> If you look at the history of the ubuntu.xsl file, can you see if the
> colors were ever changed and what the commit message says about the
> change?

The "new" ubuntu.xsl files are not very old, and declared the two
colors as the same from the first revision. I was unable to find
any useful information going back to earlier BZR branch versions.
(again, doesn't mean there isn't useful information there, just means
that if there is I didn't find it.)

... Doug