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[comiCSS] Visited Link (comicss.art)
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[โ€“] said@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For those who are curious about its history, this is where it all began for the visited links to be that color by default.

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 02:38:29 -0500

Subject: NCSA Mosaic 0.13 released.

  • Changed default anchor representations: blue and single solid underline for unvisited, dark purple and single dashed underline for visited.
[โ€“] MagicChicken@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

A dashed underline would make it a lot better and accessible. Don't think I've seen a browser do that by default