This is an excerpt from a message sent to the webkit-gtk mailing list in June 2010 (as no bug was raised about it as far as I can tell): http://www.mail-archive.com/webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org/msg00289.html > I am writing a little browser to browse local html files using webkit-gtk. When > I restart the browser, I want it to color links which were visited in previous > sessions. No problem I thought, save visited uris in a file, read them back and > call > > webkit_web_history_item_new_with_data(uri,title); > > But the links aren't coloured even though: > > Quote from http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk-WebKitWebHistoryItem.html: > > The global history is used for coloring the links of visited sites. > WebKitWebHistoryItem's constructed with webkit_web_history_item_new and > webkit_web_history_item_new_with_data are automatically added to the global > history. > > Links visted in previous sessions aren't coloured in midori and epiphany > either. They seem to have my problem too. They have even the problem to > coordinate the histories of two tabs: Only links visited in the tab itself are > coloured. > Webkit-gtk's cousins arora (webkit-qt) and chromium colour them. They don't > have my problem. (Neither firefox nor ie) > > Am I missing something here? Is this a bug or a feature? I don't want to load > every page I have previously visited to get their links coloured. > > I'm using ubuntu 10.04. > > I hope you can understand my Deutsch-English and thanks for your work. > > Yours > asdfgh2091 I can confirm the same problem on Gentoo Linux & Archlinux using webkit-gtk versions 1.2.5 & 1.2.3.
Same problem here, version 1.2.5.