Forum: Visited link color ages/wears out

by scarab , Sunday, February 17, 2013, 12:45 (4303 days ago) @ thebruce

Purple reverts to blue over time, goads me to reread old posts so I don't miss new ones.

Is it an age thing or a limit on the number of read links stored?

Good, it's not just me! I thought maybe the ID was changing due to an update, but I guess if it's stored in cookies or expiring data on the server, it's unavoidable.

Your visited links are shared across machines and platforms so I assume that they are held on the server. The server wont have infinite space.

Why not let the browser also allow visited links to be retained?
eg, don't override the a:visited css declaration; set its style to be the same as the explicit a.read class?

I don't know what that is but I imagine if they don't know if a link has been visited (no info on server) then maybe they can fall back to the browser.