- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:05:04 +0000
On 1/19/06, Tyler Close <tyler.close at gmail.com> wrote: > I think it would be fair to characterize current techniques for link > click tracking as "opaque". In contrast, the proposed "ping" attribute > explicitly declares in the HTML what is intended and how it will > happen. Perhaps the right way to explain the "ping" attribute is as > providing transparent, or explicit, feedback; shining a light on the > dark corners of click tracking. If it is explained that the feature > will make link click tracking explicit, controllable and more usable, > I think the user base will react more positively. No, they'll just disable it, as it does them directly no benefit and has a cost, so if you educate them enough to make a decision, they will not decide to be tracked. Since the main use of tracking has a direct economic cost to many parties the sites will then return to using the established successful methods for tracking, no-one will gain and browsers would've wasted lots of time that could've been spent on more productive features. Jim.
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