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Re: [XHTML 2] renaming :link to :unvisited

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:29:50 +1200
Message-ID: <451BC03E.7030806@inkedblade.net>
To: www-style@w3.org

David Latapie wrote:
> 
> “(:link means "unvisited"; and no, I don't know why they didn't call it 
> that.)”
> 
> I think Eric Meyer has a point here. Changing it would make it easier to 
> understand.
> 
> What do you think of it?

Actually, if we were changing anything, I'd suggest making :link apply to
both visited and unvisited links; but making any changes at this point would
break backward-compatibility in a big way. :link and :visited have been in
CSS since level 1, and have been interoperably implemented in browsers for
a long time.

~fantasai
Received on Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:30:25 UTC

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