Tell HN: You can differentiate hovers on visited and unvisited links
If you specify a slightly lighter or darker link color on hover, and also give different colors to links that have been visited (a usability win), I just want to let you know that you can (and should) also style the hover effect on visited links differently.
a:link { color: (blue); }
a:visited { color: (violet); }
a:link:hover { color: (lighter blue); }
a:visited:hover { color: (lighter violet); }
The only browser that gets confused is IE6, which isn’t so popular anymore; the fix, if you care, is to repeat your :link:hover style without :link, after your :visited:hover style is declared. (This is because IE6 erroneously ignores multiple classes and pseudoclasses on the same element in selectors.)