- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 06:13:35 +0000 (UTC)
(Sent to WHATWG only since that seems to be where you have sent most e-mails.) On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > The current state of things seems to be that creating a UI for this that > would actually mean something to users without at the same time being > completely in your face isn't really all that feasible. For example, > most users never look at the status bar when hovering over a link. If they don't look there, presumably showing "(tracked by example.org)" after the link's URL would not cause any extra confusion. :-) > There will likely end up being an extension or something that will flag > pings in the status bar for those who truly care, of course. I would be > very surprised if no one creates one. Indeed. > As far as the default behavior goes, the current approach seems likely > to be to provide no UI indication, and possibly to only allow pings to > URIs that are same-host with the originating page (note same-host, and > not same-origin, though that might end up changing too, of course). > And there would be preference UI to disable this behavior altogether, > naturally. Right. Thanks for the update, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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