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Bug 340868

Summary:	discuss visited link color
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	chris.guindon, denis.roy, edouard
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	432342

Description Eclipse Webmaster

2011-03-24 10:45:54 EDT

From Webmasters inbox:

Hey, could you please revisit the decision to override the default
browser behavior of visually distinguishing visited vs. unvisited links?

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-04-06 13:46:21 EDT

Nathan, does this mean anything to you?  I don't feel very strongly about this.  If it's an easy fix I can see the value, however.

Comment 2 Christopher Guindon

2012-10-19 09:35:40 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Nathan, does this mean anything to you?  I don't feel very strongly about
> this.  If it's an easy fix I can see the value, however.

This is an easy fix. We could fix this bug by adding something similar to this in visual.css

a:visited{
color#000;
}

pros : you can visually see all the page you visited

cons : It does have an affect to the overall look and feel of the site because now you have links with 2 different colors. Maybe we need to chose a color that goes well with the purple link to make them blend together...

Comment 3 Christopher Guindon

2013-03-18 09:34:02 EDT

Should we change this to wont fix or should I patch nova?

Comment 4 Christopher Guindon

2014-05-28 09:03:14 EDT

Is this something we want for solstice?

pros : you can visually see all the page you visited

cons : It does have an affect to the overall look and feel of the site because now you have links with 2 different colors. Maybe we need to chose a color that goes well with the purple link to make them blend together...

Eddie, I am curious where you stand here.

Visited link styles is useful for sites with a bunch of links like google, reddit but I am not sure we want this for eclipse.org.

I think we might want this some some sites, planeteclipse.org is a good example.

Comment 5 Denis Roy

2014-05-28 09:14:28 EDT

I have no strong preference.  I think if we decide to do this, the visited links colour should be of the exact same hue, simply lighter or darker so that we do not introduce another colour.

Comment 6 Edouard Poitras

2014-05-28 10:30:29 EDT

I'm leaning towards 'no' for the new solstice theme.  I agree with Chris' point on sites with many links like Reddit, but for us this would create inconsistencies with our links (What about the grey footer links or the clickable circles in our banner?).  Also, it would look strange with our clickable header titles as they are pretty big (see the Announcements and Community News).

Comment 7 Denis Roy

2014-05-28 11:44:31 EDT

WONTFIX it is.