- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:08:04 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 10 May 2011 20:23:51 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > Note that :link only > exists in the first place for legacy reasons, as attribute selectors > didn't exist in CSS1, but people wanted to style links differently > from named anchors (which both used the <a> element in HTML4). If we > were writing CSS from scratch today we wouldn't include it, as (a) > using @name to make anchors is deprecated, as @id on any element works > better, and (b) you can now just use a[href] to select <a> elements > that are specifically links. This is somewhat of a digression, but no, that's not actually the same thing. The :link pseudo-class only matches unvisited links, so it's still relevant. -- Øyvind Stenhaug Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
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