color of visited links in new web styling

android · 2010-09-09 00:22:15

Hola,

Thanks to the web crew for all the hard work on the new arch website look.

Just wanted to suggest that maybe a color for the previously visited links (a:visited I think) could be chosen that wasn't so close to the plain text color.

Once a link has been visited, it's sort of hard to tell it from plain text.

Some of us old guys are already going blind from decades of working in front of a monitor in the dark 8-/

Thanks again for all the hard work!

android

Ogion · 2010-09-09 00:28:13

Btw, visited link style can be a surprising vulnerability..

Now i disable that, but before i did i used a custom stylesheet, maybe that is easier for you than to wait for changes in the official style for the page.

Ogion

android · 2010-09-09 00:33:11

That's an interesting idea: overriding the web sites style sheet.

How exactly do you do that?

Thanks!

android

p.s. I did find and set this in about.config

layout.css.visited_links_enabled;false

Last edited by android (2010-09-09 00:34:51)

Ogion · 2010-09-09 00:41:41

Well for Firefox there is that addon, Stylish. With that you can set site specific styles (css). Also check out userstyles.org where you can find such styles made by other people.

Ogion

frabjous · 2010-09-09 00:48:55

Stylish is also available for Chrome/Chromium, and there are ways of using custom stylesheets with most other browsers too.

Actually for the Arch forums, though, if you click on "Profile" above, then "Display" on the left, there are about 10 different styles for how the forums look which you can choose from. Only the default "ArchLinux" style has the problem mentioned here, though the others have a different issue where all links, whether visited or not, show in more or less the same color. (Though the new post indicator is probably a better guideline anyway.)

karol · 2010-09-09 00:52:53

In your firefox profile find chrome/userContent.css and add something like

a:visited { color: #554499 !important; }

xduugu · 2010-09-12 23:13:02

Ogion wrote:

Btw, visited link style can be a surprising vulnerability..
Now i disable that, but before i did i used a custom stylesheet, maybe that is easier for you than to wait for changes in the official style for the page.
Ogion

Just for the record, that is fixed in firefox 4.

Don Coyote · 2010-12-31 18:59:03

Ogion wrote:

Btw, visited link style can be a surprising vulnerability..

Is that why visited links are in the same color? Why couldn't they be sniffed if they are the same color as regular text?

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#1 2010-09-09 00:22:15

color of visited links in new web styling

#2 2010-09-09 00:28:13

Re: color of visited links in new web styling

#3 2010-09-09 00:33:11

Re: color of visited links in new web styling

#4 2010-09-09 00:41:41

Re: color of visited links in new web styling

#5 2010-09-09 00:48:55

Re: color of visited links in new web styling

#6 2010-09-09 00:52:53

Re: color of visited links in new web styling

#7 2010-09-12 23:13:02

Re: color of visited links in new web styling

#8 2010-12-31 18:59:03

Re: color of visited links in new web styling

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