- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:19:06 +0100
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> This e-mail is a response to all the recent ping="" feedback. > > Not really. My consensus-o-meter says that ping should be removed from > the specification. I see no actual implementations, demonstrated > evidence that it is a bad idea, and an overwhelming number of comments > that indicate it isn't desirable in HTML. There is no evidence > whatsoever to indicate it is ready for standardization, and all you > are doing at this point is ignoring the substantive objections by > adding more hacks around an inherently broken and undesirable feature. > > In other words, you are wasting our time. > > ....Roy Indeed. The way it's currently specified seems to be based on workarounds and hacks, not a proper design, such as cramming an illegal value into the HTTP "Referer" header. It's one thing to try to document non-compliant behavior because it's already widely in use (content-type sniffing), but something completely different to design new protocol features knowingly violating the base specification. BR, Julian
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