Re: spec review: ping attribute

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Understood. But right now we have one UA (FF3) approaching release, 
>> and the FF developers decided to ignore the "should". This means that 
>> they are either incompetent (I don't believe that), that they 
>> implemented something better (they didn't AFAIK) or that the spec 
>> can't be implemented.
> 
> You missed option (d):  The functionality was implemented by one 
> (non-UI) guy as a test for an alpha release, no one's thought much about 
> it since, and now that this thread has reminded people of it it might 
> get turned off for Fx3.
> 
> For what it's worth, I haven't thought of a sane UI for notifying the 
> user of "ping" yet.  But then again, I'm not a UI designer by trade.

Thanks for the clarification.

And yes, coming up with a sane UI for that is hard.

Best regards, Julian