visited link color change, not a feature in Safari for Windows?

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visited link color change, not a feature in Safari for Windows?

I'm sure this has come up before, but for the life of me I can't find a thread about it. I really, really would like to use safari on my work PC, but the only thing that's holding me back is this little thing. Is this simply missing from Safari for Windows?!?

Dell Optiplex 330, Windows XP, 1.8GHz, 512MB

Posted on Aug 6, 2008 1:27 PM

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Answer 1

Mulder

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Aug 6, 2008 1:51 PM in response to Sean C. Carter

Do you mean the ability to change the colors for links when you visit them? That's not a feature of Safari at all, though it seems rather silly to not use a particular browser due to that. But you can do it if you use a custom stylesheet and link to it in the Preferences > Advanced tab.

Mulder

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Answer 2

Aug 6, 2008 1:57 PM in response to Mulder

Well, I don't think that's exactly what I meant...

Specifically, when viewing the list of threads here, the links are blue. When I read on and then return to the list and reload the page, that link turns purple. I'm realizing this is actually working here in the apple forums. On criagslist, however, it doesn't work. Works fine in firefox and IE. So I guess my question now should be, why not in Safari?

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Mulder

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Aug 6, 2008 2:07 PM in response to Sean C. Carter

On criagslist, however, it doesn't work.

That sounds odd. When I visit craigslist, the links are blue; they turn purple when I hover over them, and orange when I actually click on them. And since it works on other sites, I'll venture a guess that the site was created with Windows users in mind, so it doesn't adhere to web standards, which is why it works fine with IE and Firefox, since they're both prominent browsers on Windows.

Mulder

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Answer 4

Aug 6, 2008 2:11 PM in response to Mulder

Well, that stinks. What's strange is that it works fine in Safari on OSX. Oh well, back to Firefox...

Thanks for your help Mulder.

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