- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 00:52:10 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, L. David Baron wrote: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#selector-link > says: > # All a elements that have an href attribute, all area elements > # that have an href attribute, and all link elements that have an > # href attribute, must match one of :link and :visited. > > A number of user agents have recently implemented changes to > handling of :link and :visited that can't be described strictly in > terms of an element matching a selector. These are described in > more detail in http://dbaron.org/mozilla/visited-privacy . > > css3-selectors has an exception that allows this: > # UAs may therefore treat all links as unvisited links, or > # implement other measures to preserve the user's privacy while > # rendering visited and unvisited links differently. > --http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#the-link-pseudo-classes-link-and-visited > > HTML5 should have a similar exception that allows user agents to be more > flexible than requiring that all of the elements listed match exactly > one of :link and :visited. I've added a paragraph saying that another spec might introduce additional requirements here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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