How bout types of colored links?

Adam T. McClure (mcclurea@nag.cs.colorado.edu)
Tue, 9 May 1995 03:18:46 +0500


I think Jeremy Miller's idea of having popup menus is an excellent
one, and wanted to ask this group if an idea I had is worth considering.

One of the things I ran into in creating a teching tool recently was
that I couldn't denote a particular thread. I wanted to target the
paper for multiple audiences and provide support for less technically-
inclined audiences without compromising the flow of the paper. It
seemed logical to me to define a named type of link that has a particular
color associated with it. All the references to definitions could be
in blue, the links to other elements of the discussion in red, and
purple would jump off my server to an off-site page. All visited
links could be tan if I felt like it. There's currently a method in
Netscape 1.1 to define different colors for visited and new links,
as well as redefining the standard text color, but there's no way
to have your own labelled links.

Am I way behind the times, or is this a legitimate item?

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mcclurea@colorado.edu	University of Colorado-Boulder

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