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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.

Posted 20th October 2012 at 1:44 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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