- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:29:38 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > In that case, I suggest the following change. Remove "therefore" as > previously suggested in this thread and reverse the order of the two > paragraphs. i.e. > > UAs may treat all links as unvisited links, or implement other measures > to preserve the user's privacy while rendering visited and unvisited > links differently. > > Note: It is possible for style sheet authors to abuse the :link and > :visited pseudo-classes to determine which sites a user has visited > without the user's consent. This would lose the definite cause-and-effect relationship between the mention of the security risk, and the conformance clause. Like I said, this current wording is the result of significant discussion within the working group (I mean, several dozen man-hours). I do not think I will be able to convince the working group to change the text for mere editorial reasons. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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