visted verses not yet visited hyperlinks in the resulting html pages

Doug Smythies dsmythies at telus.net
Fri Aug 16 14:19:24 UTC 2013


On 2013.08.16 01:53 Kevin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Matthew East <matt at mdke.org> wrote:
>> There probably isn't any history to this - almost certainly it was
>> done this way because that is the way that the Ubuntu website and
>> other websites based on the standard Ubuntu theme do links, to ensure
>> consistency between themes. You could try getting in touch with the
>> Ubuntu web design team to find out why this design decision was taken.

> Hi, Matt. It looks like that may be the case.

> Doug, it looks like the ubuntu.com stylesheet uses the same colors for
> both unvisited and visited links as well.

Matt: As always, thanks for chiming in on this one.

While I really don't like it, I'll drop it.

... Doug





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