- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:25:50 -0700
- To: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On 8/25/10, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com> wrote: > Garrett Smith wrote: >> "user agents must treat all links as unvisited links. Authors should >> be advised that some older user agents match visited links with >> :visited and unvisited links with :link." >> >> Essentially along the lines of codifying the behavior. What's the >> point in a feature that is designed to be not interoperable? > > > This is a security issue. Servers can track a computer's personal > browsing history by using attribute selectors together with :visited > or server side scripts (for which I have little knowledge) and :visited. > > And? -- Garrett
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