14911 2011-11-23 16:12:05 +0000 provide a way to make UAs' ":visited" pseudo-state's behavior more consistent 2011-12-09 00:20:33 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified All All RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 enhancement --- 1 giorgio.liscio ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 60383 0 giorgio.liscio 2011-11-23 16:12:05 +0000 hello today pages are frequently updated: for example a discussion list (a forum) contains links to pages that are updated at every user's post the behavior of :visited is not consistent in this case, because UAs shows as ":visited" pages that are now updated so an attribute to the anchor tag <a href="..." updatetime="datetime">...</a> can prevent UAs from activating the :visited state, that is what site designers probably want for their users. an alternative can be to introduce an :updated pseudo state: a{color:blue;} a:visited{color:purple;} a:updated{color:blue;} /* overrides :visited */ but in any case a new attribute should be introduced hope this helps. bye 61145 1 ian 2011-12-07 22:58:58 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: You can do this today just by putting the last update date in the URL, as in: <a href="forum.cgi?page=124&lastUpdated=2011-12-03">page 2</a> ...or whatnot. 61214 2 giorgio.liscio 2011-12-08 06:40:09 +0000 no, this will create two different pages at search engine's eyes 61271 3 ian 2011-12-09 00:20:33 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: For search engine purposes, you can use rel=canonical.