Last modified: 2011-02-19 22:47:50 UTC
On en.wikipedia using the monobook skin we are allowed six different colors for Wikilinks: (normal/stub/missing) * (unvisited/visited). But we are only allowed one color for external links. Please allow our browsers to discriminate between visited and unvisited external links. These lines work for me (the first one is already in main.css): #bodyContent a.external { color: #36B; } #bodyContent a.external:visited { color: #749; }
Customise this using custom CSS as desired.
I've switched to the new Vector skin, but enwiki still doesn't differentiate between visited and unvisited external links by default. (In reply to comment #1) > Customise this using custom CSS as desired. It's nice that this is user-customizable. But most users don't install custom CSS, so it'd be very helpful if you set it by default. At http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040503.html usability expert Jakob Nielsen writes, "Knowing which pages they've already visited frees users from unintentionally revisiting the same pages over and over again." He says that this is extra-important for users with bad short-term memory, such as many older users, but important for everyone. Reopening. Bumping from "trivial" to "normal" because this is a usability-related request, not a cosmetic issue. Adding keywords "accessibility, easy". Would you accept a patch to fix this?
Anyone with usability/accessibility experience will tell you that :visited are **required**. Please repair it.
Created attachment 7666 [details] Proposed patch that adds :visited styling Patch for vector skin's main-ltr.css and main-rtl.css which adds :visited styling to external links so they are the same colour as visited internal links.
The color #0b0080 is not web safe so will probably not be used. I'll see what I can do about finding a web-safe one.
(In reply to comment #5) > The color #0b0080 is not web safe so will probably not be used. I'll see what > I can do about finding a web-safe one. Does web safe colours really matter anymore? I'd imagine most people can display all colours expressible in #rrggbb format now a days.
Websafe doesn't matter to 99.99999% of the web anymore, no. But we are not within that superset.
Can you update your patch with a correct color and provide a patch for the differents skins ? :)
*** Bug 26475 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If the bug is marked as a duplicate then obviously it should be twice as important to resolve. The problem does not need to be solved by installing a file on my computer. This a problem for every visitor to the WIKI sites. The problem needs to solved by the programmers or so called web site builders for everyones benefit including a first time visitor. Whats wrong with plain old RED?
CC'ing Trevor and Krinkle... This is a very trivial bug, and by the looks of it, also occurs on Vector. Maybe other skins too.... Any chance of fixing this up and closing it?
I'll do this next monday when finishing up other small things.
Fixed in r82495. In addition to the color for .external:visited, I added a color for .external:active ( 'active' is when your mouse is down on it). This to be consistent with internal links which also have a visual clue for :active. external links that were interwikis (eg. [[m:Foobar]] ) had an override to match external links, for that reason I added declerations to have a visual clue for :active and :visted on .extiw as well.
