Re^2: • What is this?

[greenFox]

I for one would find some implementation of this useful. I currently achieve that affect by making sure I have visited the homenodes of Monks of interest, combined with a good colour scheme which differentiates visited and unvisited links I can find their nodes fairly easily. But it is very brittle and any of the following break it- if you visit a Monks homenode for some other reason, if you clear or loose your browser history, you work from multiple computers, browser history times out after a while (9 days is the default for Firefox).

[pelagic]

... and I do it exactly the same way with that in my personal css:


a:visited {color: #008000;}

With Opera you can define the time how long you want to mark links as visited ...

[Your Mother]

And getting a bit crazy with it (and pointless since it wouldn't be searchable by anything but eye) the PM gods could add "author" attributes into "a" tags:

<a href="http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=323154" author="323154">A Marlin is, A Merlyn isn't</a>.

This will work on browsers that properly support CSS2:

a[author="323154"]:before {
   /* unicode bullet */
   content:'\2022  ';
}

[allolex]

This has a pretty interesting effect:

/* id=3628 is Newest Nodes */
#3628 .main_content a:visited {
    visibility: hidden;
}

[greenFox]

" ... and I do it exactly the same way with that in my personal css"

Yep that's what I do. And it's brittle for all the reasons I gave.

"With Opera you can define the time how long you want to mark links as visited ..."

And you can in Firefox too.