Can you mark items on a website as ’unread’ without cookies?
20th October 2012
My answer to Can you mark items on a website as ’unread’ without cookies? on Quora
It’s not very exciting, but CSS will let you set different styles for visited vs unvisited links and the technique has worked reliably since the mid 1990s.
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