Re: spec review: ping attribute

On 27 Oct 2007, at 09:52, Julian Reschke wrote:

>>>> In the case of Firefox 3, the developers were very aware of the  
>>>> above requirement, as well as its implications, and  
>>>> intentionally decided to violate the SHOULD for the time being.  
>>>> It isn't clear to me that there is anything I could do to the  
>>>> _spec_ to change their mind. (It's not like they just missed the  
>>>> above paragraph or didn't understand it.)
>>> Well, they ignored it, yet made the functionality the default.  
>>> It's a very clear signal that we have a problem here.
>> We could remove the paragraph.
>
> Which makes things even worse. If you can't make this work  
> correctly, please consider removing it.

Having read this entire thread, I don't see why anything is actually  
wrong. In this context the difference between GET and POST is  
negligible — both can technically be used to do what is desired,  
though using GET would be breaking RFC 2616 (or rather, breaking a  
SHOULD NOT). If we disallow it to be used on external servers, people  
will just continue to use Javascript to achieve this, which CANNOT be  
disabled by a UA without breaking behaviour that sites rely upon.

- Geoffrey Sneddon