Closed
Bug 211531
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Color of visited links should range from VLINK to LINK according to time passed
Categories
(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement)
Core
Layout: Text and Fonts
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
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(Reporter: t4qohfl402, Unassigned)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; es-ES; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; es-ES; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 I'd like that the color of visited links could range from the the color defined for visited links to the color of _un_visited links in proportion to the time passed since last visit. This feature was present in early Mosaic, but I haven't seen it again in any browser. It should be easy to code. The time of last visit is present in the History (isn't it?). It should be a question of finding the time passed and dividing it by the time we keep URL history. Then Mozilla should interpolate between visited and unvisited colors. I am not sure if the interpolation should be lineal or there would be some human factors to compensate. I don't know why this is not the standard. Maybe there is some human interface issue I didn't think about. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to a apge with links, some visited, some not. 2. The links unvisited would appear, say, red. 3. The links visited 1 minute ago would appear, say, yellow. 4. The links visited 7 days ago would appear orange. 5. The links visited 15 days ago would appear, say, almost red. Actual Results: All the visited links within the history are yellow. Expected Results: (See the steps)
Comment 1•20 years ago
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Note that this would be even slower than what we have now (which is just a boolean "is visited" check and is a rather visible item in profiles of pages with lots of links in them) and would require us to replace a pair of CSS rules with a bunch of C++ code....
Comment 2•20 years ago
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Having a graduated range of color values, while technically possible, is a violation of basic laws of link coloring. It can be confusing enough when a site sets unvisited links in green and visited ones in blue, without a range of barely-discernable values in between to make sense of. If links are marked visited longer than you'd like, set your history to remember items visited for fewer days.
Comment 3•20 years ago
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Resolving as WONTFIX.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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