Bug 143847

Summary: Colors of links in mailing list archives are hard to differentiate
Product: Red Hat Web Site Reporter: Craig Routledge <web>
Component: OtherAssignee: Web Development <webdev>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Web Development <webdev>
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URL: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/thread.html
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Fixed In Version: 2005/09/16 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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view of mailing list archive with some visited links none

Description Craig Routledge 2004-12-29 23:10:39 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041020 Galeon/1.3.18

Description of problem:
The web interface to the mailing lists uses similar colors for visited
and un-visited links, which makes it very hard to follow threads.  I'm
using dialup, and so subscribing to lists such as "fedora-list" isn't
practical.Would it be possible to use different colors or not specify
colors at all -- leaving it to the browser defaults?

The relevant line is: body link="#000066" vlink="#333399"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF"

Although the colors look far apart by number, they are in fact blue
and slightly lighter blue.  I've attached a screenshot showing a few
items with one previously clicked link.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. read several messages from the archive
2. go back to an index page
3. try and determine which links have been visited


Additional info:
Comment 1 Craig Routledge 2004-12-29 23:13:28 UTC 
Created attachment 109170 [details]
view of mailing list archive with some visited links
Comment 2 Craig Routledge 2005-09-16 16:46:33 UTC 
New display uses browser defaults.