- From: Noah Slater <nslater@bytesexual.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:11:18 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:38:51PM -0800, L. David Baron wrote: > (1) how much tracking currently done using redirects and/or script > would be converted to <a ping>? (an improvement) Most tracking is done using HTTP redirects: http://a.example.com/clickthrough?uri=http://b.example.com/ > (3) what are the relative magnitudes of the improvement of > switching from redirects and/or script to <a ping> vs the > worsening of doing more tracking? These URIs become a lot more meaningful for clients without having to dereference them to follow the HTTP redirect. > Does this introduce anything that form.submit() can't already do? > Considering that script can already do lots of things when a user > clicks a link (including send pings), having such user interface > already requires solving the halting problem. Sure, it is possible to capture DOM events, send a HTTP request and then redirect the user to the target. Unfortunately, this: a) is complex, 2) clumsy and d) requires scripting This is based on my experience tracking "clickthrough" on http://www.ebuyer.com/, a large ecommerce site, and should in no way be taken as my support for the proposal. Thanks, -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman
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