privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
We’re making changes to how :visited works in Firefox. We’re not sure what release this will be part of yet and the fixes are still making their way through code review, but we wanted to give a heads up to people as soon as we understood how we wanted to approach fixing this.
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(Demo).
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The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » The longdesc lottery
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