<a href="#foo"> links not displayed as visited without refreshingpage

Greetings.

Please see .

If I click one of the links in the "Contents" list at the top, then
click the "top" link in the bar at the bottom, the link from
"Contents" isn't marked visited, and neither is the link in the
navigation bar.

However, if I then refresh the page, the links are marked visited.

Is this normal behaviour, or am I doing something wrong? If it's
normal behaviour, can I change something so that the links are marked
visited? At present readers who jump around the page instead of
reading in the suggested sequence are likely to forget which parts
they've read.

Here are the relevant CSS rules from
:

div#nav a:link {
color: white;
background: black;
}
div#nav a:visited {
color: silver;
background: black;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

Here are links if you want to bypass content negotiation:
HTML 4.01: http://pjr.gotdns.org/verse/16-poems.html
XHTML 1.1: http://pjr.gotdns.org/verse/16-poems.xhtml

Of course, if anybody notices other problems, I'll be pleased to hear
about them.

--
PJR :-)

Re: <a href="#foo"> links not displayed as visited without refreshing page

In article ,
Peter J Ross wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> Please see .
>
> If I click one of the links in the "Contents" list at the top, then
> click the "top" link in the bar at the bottom, the link from
> "Contents" isn't marked visited, and neither is the link in the
> navigation bar.
>
> However, if I then refresh the page, the links are marked visited.
>
> Is this normal behaviour, or am I doing something wrong?

Browser-dependent. On my Mac, Firefox 1.5 colors the links visited
without a refresh. Interestingly, Safari 2 doesn't even color them after
a refresh. The only way I can get S to color the link as visited is by
including it in the URL, e.g.:
http://pjr.gotdns.org/verse/16-poems#eldest-brother

Determining the behavior of other browsers is left as an exercise for
the reader. :)

HTH

--
Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more

Re: <a href="#foo"> links not displayed as visited withoutrefreshing page

In alt.html on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:10:31 -0400, Nikita the Spider
wrote:

> In article ,
> Peter J Ross wrote:
>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> Please see .
>>
>> If I click one of the links in the "Contents" list at the top, then
>> click the "top" link in the bar at the bottom, the link from
>> "Contents" isn't marked visited, and neither is the link in the
>> navigation bar.
>>
>> However, if I then refresh the page, the links are marked visited.
>>
>> Is this normal behaviour, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Browser-dependent.

I was convinced that it wasn't, but I was wrong.

> On my Mac, Firefox 1.5 colors the links visited
> without a refresh.

Same in Iceweasel 2.0.0.6 on Debian, which has the same rendering
engine as Firefox.

> Interestingly, Safari 2 doesn't even color them after
> a refresh. The only way I can get S to color the link as visited is by
> including it in the URL, e.g.:
> http://pjr.gotdns.org/verse/16-poems#eldest-brother

Same in Konqueror 3.5.7, which has the same rendering engine as
Safari.

> Determining the behavior of other browsers is left as an exercise for
> the reader. :)

Opera 9.23 behaves like Safari and Konqueror.

I have no idea about IE, and frankly don't mind much if it breaks.

> HTH

It helps a lot to clarify the problem, thanks.

--
PJR :-)

Re: <a href="#foo"> links not displayed as visited without refreshing page

Peter J Ross wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Please see .
>
> If I click one of the links in the "Contents" list at the top, then
> click the "top" link in the bar at the bottom, the link from
> "Contents" isn't marked visited, and neither is the link in the
> navigation bar.

Same with lynx. ;)

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Re: <a href="#foo"> links not displayed as visited without refreshing page

"Peter J Ross" wrote in message
news:slrnfdg4m3.9fe.pjr@pjr.gotdns.org...
> Greetings.
>
> Please see .

> Of course, if anybody notices other problems, I'll be pleased to hear
> about them.

You are serving this as application/xhtml+xml;

IE (both 6 and 7) do not support xhtml so your page is unusable with these
browsers. They invite me to download the page.


> Here are links if you want to bypass content negotiation:
Content negotiation broken?

--
Richard.

Re: <a href="#foo"> links not displayed as visited withoutrefreshing page

In alt.html on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:09:16 GMT, rf
wrote:

> "Peter J Ross" wrote in message
> news:slrnfdg4m3.9fe.pjr@pjr.gotdns.org...
>> Greetings.
>>
>> Please see .
>
>> Of course, if anybody notices other problems, I'll be pleased to hear
>> about them.
>
> You are serving this as application/xhtml+xml;
>
> IE (both 6 and 7) do not support xhtml so your page is unusable with these
> browsers. They invite me to download the page.

IE *should* be sent the HTML 4.01 variant as text/html.

>> Here are links if you want to bypass content negotiation:
> Content negotiation broken?

I think IE may be sending "Accept: */*". Perhaps this will fix it? (I
can't check for myself because I have no access to a Windows box at
present.)

AddType application/xhtml+xml;qs=0.8 .xhtml

If not, I'll have to start playing with mod_rewrite.

Thanks for your help.

--
PJR :-)