[whatwg] <a download> feedback from Bjartur Thorlacius on 2012-03-04 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:27:42 +0000
Message-ID: <4F52B6FE.2090804@gmail.com>

?ann lau  3.mar 2012 21:30, skrifa?i Glenn Maynard:
> Another use case: fixing Google's search results.  They're currently
> annoyingly broken: [snip]
Yes, Google is broken. But no, "Save As" is not the only thing that it 
breaks.

In special,

<a 
href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=l%C3%B6gberg&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CCwQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thingvellir.is%2Fsaga%2Flogberg%2F&amp;ei=F69ST6T3OM6XOqGOnZEK&amp;usg=AFQjCNEPLku9Nm5bsA12_oY9mV1gPH3Aeg&amp;cad=rja" 
...

does not link to http://www.thingvellir.is/saga/logberg/. Google could 
fix this by linking directly. That, however, would allow for opting out 
of tracking by simply not running scripts.

Received on Saturday, 3 March 2012 16:27:42 UTC