- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:44:47 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > >>> Not displaying the target of a link is considered a security >>> issue nowadays. I hope that at some point some of the specs we're >>> working on will have a Security Considerations section pointing >>> that out. >>> >>> The point I was trying to make was that one of the "four big" UAs >>> doesn't even get *this* right, so I have my doubts that the >>> situation will be any better with a/@ping. >> I tried all my browsers and couldn't find one that didn't show the >> URL when hovering over a link, so I'm not sure what you're >> referring to here. If we get as good interop with ping="" as with >> <a href="">, I'll be happy. > > At least on Windows XP, Safari does not display the link target > anywhere. Safari displays the target URL of a hovered link in the status bar, which is off by default, but easy to turn on. Regards, Maciej
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