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How websites can find out which other sites you visit

19-Feb-10

When a web browser renders a page that includes hyperlinks to other pages, one of two different colours is normally used for each link, depending on whether you already have visited the page to which the link points. To make this feature work, the browser needs a history file, in other words a list of [...]

“Link to this page” widget

10-May-08

I recently added a “link to this page” toy to www.anta.net. Using JavaScript and the Apache mod_include module, the widget implements a text pseudo-input containing the exact HTML code required for creating a link to the page in question.