Closed Bug 11230 Opened 26 years ago Closed 25 years ago

{compat} Active links should be red

Categories

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Other
Other
defect

Tracking

()

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: allen.sam, Assigned: buster)

Details

(Whiteboard: [NOTESTCASENEEDED])

By default, 4.x changes the color of active links to red. Mozilla changes them to 'lime'. (I would suggest sticking to the same coloring scheme as 4.x because some page authors have come to rely on it -- for example, by making a page's background yellow, against which lime fades but red remains visible.)
Assignee: troy → kipp
Sure enough, ua.css shows the color is specified as 'lime' for active links. Kipp, cvs indicates you made this change (quite a while ago), so I'm assigning to you since I assume you best understand why the colors were chosen
Summary: Active links should be red → {compat} Active links should be red
Whiteboard: [NOTESTCASENEEDED]
In the sample stylesheet for displaying HTML2 in CSS, a:active is defined as lime. But that section of the appendix is informative, not normative, and further mentions that the colors "have been added for completeness." So it's certainly not set in stone that lime is required. CSS2's sample stylesheet for HTML4 doesn't suggest any particular color. I don't think that a default color of red for active links would violate any W3C specification. (This is an 4.x compatibility thing -- marking as such.)
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M10
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I tweaked ua.css so that active links would be red.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
verified fixed
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.