- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:37:21 +0100
- To: Kornel Lesinski <kornel@geekhood.net>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Kornel Lesinski wrote: >> I'm also concerned that UAs may implement the protocol part and >> neglect the UI part (which essentially is what almost happened in >> Firefox 3). > > I'd like to point out that google.com is already tracking links without > exposing that fact in UI: > > <a onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','')" class="l" > href="http://example.com/foo">example.com/foo</a> Evil. > Lack of UI for ping attribute couldn't be worse than that, but good > implementation could improve the situation. Yes, it could. Haven't seen a good implementation yet, though. > There doesn't have to be visible UI - for example browsers could > suppress ping attribute when in Private/Incognito mode. Of course. BR, Julian
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