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Most (all?) browsers by default identify visited links. Firefox uses a purple-ish colour by default. Most modern sites override that in CSS so it's not as common to see this as it once was. But I regularly use a site - http://mudcat.org - which dates from the 1990s and I really need this 'visited' colour to identify new posts.

The browser on my Jolla C (2.0.2.43) doesn't colour visited links on mudcat.org. I think that's a bug - and I'll raise an issue on github if that's confirmed. So I wrote a userstyle to correct it for mudcat. (I have several other userstyles, including for mudcat, so I know that userstyles work. Put them in ~/.mozilla/mozembed/chrome/userContent.css). This one works in Firefox desktop but it doesn't work on the Jolla C:

@-moz-document url("http://mudcat.org/")
/* mudcat index - jolla-only */
/* Version 1 14-8-2016 */
{
/* Visited links */
td :visited {color:purple};
}

Even

:visited {color:purple};

So I suspect that it's not just that the browser doesn't colour links by default but that the :visited pseudoclass doesn't work at all.

Questions:

1. Does anybody see coloured visted links on that or any other site with the Jolla browser
2. Has the browser ever coloured visited links?
3. Does anybody know of a site with CSS that uses :visited, and does it work?

Most (all?) browsers by default identify visited links. Firefox uses a purple-ish colour by default. Most modern sites override that in CSS so it's not as common to see this as it once was. But I regularly use a site - http://mudcat.org - which dates from the 1990s and I really need this 'visited' colour to identify new posts.

The browser on my Jolla C (2.0.2.43) doesn't colour visited links on mudcat.org. I think that's a bug - and I'll raise an issue on github if that's confirmed. So I wrote a userstyle to correct it for mudcat. (I have several other userstyles, including for mudcat, so I know that userstyles work. Put them in ~/.mozilla/mozembed/chrome/userContent.css). This one works in Firefox desktop but it doesn't work on the Jolla C:

@-moz-document url("http://mudcat.org/")
/* mudcat index - jolla-only */
/* Version 1 14-8-2016 */
{
/* Visited links */
td :visited {color:purple};
}

Even

:visited {color:purple};

So I suspect that it's not just that the browser doesn't colour links by default but that the :visited pseudoclass doesn't work at all.

Questions:

1. Does anybody see coloured visted links on that or any other site with the Jolla browser
2. Has the browser ever coloured visited links?
3. Does anybody know of a site with CSS that uses :visited, and does it work?

Most (all?) browsers by default identify visited links. Firefox uses a purple-ish colour by default. Most modern sites override that in CSS so it's not as common to see this as it once was. But I regularly use a site - http://mudcat.org - which dates from the 1990s and I really need this 'visited' colour to identify new posts.

The browser on my Jolla C (2.0.2.43) doesn't colour visited links on mudcat.org. I think that's a bug - and I'll raise an issue on github if that's confirmed. So I wrote a userstyle to correct it for mudcat. (I have several other userstyles, including for mudcat, so I know that :visited in userstyles work. Put them in ~/.mozilla/mozembed/chrome/userContent.css). This one works in Firefox desktop but it doesn't work on the Jolla C:

@-moz-document url("http://mudcat.org/")
/* mudcat index - jolla-only */
/* Version 1 14-8-2016 */
{
/* Visited links */
td :visited {color:purple};
}

Even

:visited {color:purple};

So either, so I suspect that it's not just that the browser doesn't colour links by default but that the :visited pseudoclass doesn't work at all.

Questions:

1. Does anybody see coloured visted links on that or any https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-browser/issues/500

   **Update: 16-3-2017

   I looked into this, so I'll record what I concluded.

   Firefox (gecko) stores history in places.sqlite in the profile along with other site with the stuff, notably bookmarks and favicons. The Jolla browser

2. Has the browser ever coloured visited links?
3. Does anybody know of a site with CSS that uses :visited, and does has no places database. It stores history in /home/nemo/.local/share/org.sailfishos/sailfish-browser/sailfish-browser.sqlite (table: browser_history). It stores bookmarks in bookmarks.json in the same directory.

   So the failure to effect :visited isn't a bug so much as a result of a design decision. To fix it work?

https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-browser/issues/500

Edit 1: 9-10-2016

Bug still present in 2.0.4 browser.would require the css computation to point to the new history database.

Most (all?) browsers by default identify visited links. Firefox uses a purple-ish colour by default. Most modern sites override that in CSS so it's not as common to see this as it once was. But I regularly use a site - http://mudcat.org - which dates from the 1990s and I really need this 'visited' colour to identify new posts.

:visited in userstyles doesn't work either, so I suspect that it's not just that the browser doesn't colour links by default but that the :visited pseudoclass doesn't work at all.

https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-browser/issues/500

**Update: Update: 16-3-2017

I looked into this, so I'll record what I concluded.

Firefox (gecko) stores history in places.sqlite in the profile along with other stuff, notably bookmarks and favicons. The Jolla browser has no places database. It stores history in /home/nemo/.local/share/org.sailfishos/sailfish-browser/sailfish-browser.sqlite (table: browser_history). It stores bookmarks in bookmarks.json in the same directory.

So the failure to effect :visited isn't a bug so much as a result of a design decision. To fix it would require the css computation to point to the new history database.

Most (all?) browsers by default identify visited links. Firefox uses a purple-ish colour by default. Most modern sites override that in CSS so it's not as common to see this as it once was. But I regularly use a site - http://mudcat.org - which dates from the 1990s and I really need this 'visited' colour to identify new posts.

:visited in userstyles doesn't work either, so I suspect that it's not just that the browser doesn't colour links by default but that the :visited pseudoclass doesn't work at all.

https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-browser/issues/500

Update: 16-3-2017

I looked into this, so I'll record what I concluded.

Firefox (gecko) stores history in places.sqlite in the profile along with other stuff, notably bookmarks and favicons. The Jolla browser has no places database. It stores history in /home/nemo/.local/share/org.sailfishos/sailfish-browser/sailfish-browser.sqlite (table: browser_history). It stores bookmarks in bookmarks.json in the same directory.

So the failure to effect :visited isn't a bug so much as a result of a design decision. To fix it would require the css computation to point to the new history database.