Link colour

[Richard Porter]

On 13 Mar 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:49:25 +0100
> David J Worden <aux.auges at free.fr> wrote:

>> MSIE and FireFox on Windows do as I have specified, but NetSurf
>> insists on keeping the link colour as blue.  Is this a known fault?

It's a long-standing bug.

>> It seems a very fundamental thing to be so complicated that it has
>> been left until later to implement.

> Yes.  NetSurf does not obey link colours specified in the body tag,
> only specified via CSS.  It is more complicated than you might imagine.

Evidently, but I can't help thinking that it might have been easier to 
do the basic html support first, and then add the CSS support, rather 
than the other way around!

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