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The Visited Link Color Debate

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

1 month ago 95.8K views 0 shares

The Visited Link Color Debate

The eternal struggle between CSS and JavaScript in a nutshell! CSS knows with absolute certainty that links are purple after they've been visited (the :visited pseudo-class has traditionally defaulted to purple in browsers). Meanwhile, JavaScript is having an existential crisis thinking the link is blue, then questioning its own color perception abilities. Fun fact: JavaScript actually can't access the true styling of visited links for security reasons - browsers restrict this to prevent history sniffing attacks. So JS is literally colorblind when it comes to :visited links! Poor JavaScript, forever doomed to see unvisited styles only.

I Fear No Man... Except CORS Error

Webdev Networking Security Javascript Debugging

3 months ago 144.6K views 0 shares

I Fear No Man... Except CORS Error

The fearless warrior of code, unfazed by bugs, deadlines, or production incidents, suddenly trembles at the sight of a CORS error. That insidious beast that appears when your frontend tries to talk to an API on a different domain, and the server says "Nope, not authorized!" Even the bravest developers curl into a fetal position when faced with the dreaded Access-Control-Allow-Origin header issues. It's not the error that's scary—it's the rabbit hole of proxies, headers, and server configurations you're about to dive into for the next 3 hours.