visted verses not yet visited hyperlinks in the resulting html pages

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
I think most people here agree with you.  If you do have time to chase the "Ubuntu web design team" then maybe they do have a good answer as to why they did it.  That might make us appreciate the decision and maybe learn something.  On the other hand they might just say "oops, didn't mean to do that!" and then fix it.  Either way we kinda win ;)
Regards from 
Tom :)  






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> From: Corey Hart <coreyh.hart at gmail.com>
>To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> 
>Cc: Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net>; Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 20:05
>Subject: Re: visted verses not yet visited hyperlinks in the resulting html pages
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>I have to say from a user experience perspective, having visited links a different color is usually a good idea (especially when looking at something for the first time, as you noted it is often the only way to see where you have been :-)  but that's just my two cents.  -Corey.
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>On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>Hi :)
>>I don't think Matt was saying to drop it.  Just that it's another team's decision/accident and not this one's.  That does make it more difficult to deal with so i personally would also drop it but if you want to pursue it then Matt's suggestion might be a good move, ie treat it as though t was a deliberate choice and ask them why they thought it looked better that way.  
>>Regards from 
>>Tom :)  
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>>> From: Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net>
>>>To: 'Ubuntu Doc' <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>>>Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 15:19
>>>Subject: RE: visted verses not yet visited hyperlinks in the resulting html pages
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>>>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.
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>>>> Hi, Matt. It looks like that may be the case.
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>>>> Doug, it looks like the ubuntu.com stylesheet uses the same colors for
>>>> both unvisited and visited links as well.
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>>>Matt: As always, thanks for chiming in on this one.
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>>>While I really don't like it, I'll drop it.
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>>>... Doug
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