Ramblings of Narc

I posted a “dent” (God, is that a silly name or what?) recently on identi.ca about how I hate not being able to tell visited links from fresh ones. And then I had a look at this blog and realized it had the exact problem I was ranting about.

The reason for this is that I got this theme from elsewhere, and never really cared enough to look at it very closely.

But, if there’s anything that can get me out of my usual lazy stupor, it’s being (or being called) a hypocrite, so I’ve set out to fix my most obvious failing.

So I’ve added a:visited CSS selectors to all the important places I could find here, on the Ramblings of Narc, and the final result is reasonable, as far as I’m concerned.

As a result, I can now whine all I want about websites that don’t make any obvious visual distinction between visited and unvisited links. But wait, there’s more — I also have a (decent) solution, in the form of a bookmarklet I picked up a long while ago called “zap”. To use it for yourself, all you need to do is drag and drop Zap to your bookmarks toolbar. You can even click it for a live preview.

Oh, the wonders of Javascript bookmarks

Update: Oops, the wonders of Javascript bookmarks, indeed. Somewhere along the way I think WordPress probably mangled it. That’s what I get for not testing carefully enough. Use this link to get to it, instead.