- From: Nicolas Froidure <froidure_nicolas@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:06:23 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 31/10/2012 10:55, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2012-10-31 10:21, Nicolas Froidure wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think we need a specification to allow users to report websites >> bugs from their browser. That's why i think it could be usefull to add a >> meta markup like this : >> <meta name="bugreport" content="(uri)" /> > > <link>, not <meta>. Indeed it seems better > >> The uri could be : >> - mailto: to send a report by mail (ex: mailto:webmaster@example.org) >> - http: to send the bug report a a simple HTTP POST request (ex: >> http://example.org/bugreport). >> - bug: something more customizable to allow webmasters to fit bug >> reports with their systems (ex: >> bug:http?uri=/bug.dat&method=POST&captcha=/captcha.jpg ) > > What's the use case for this? Do you want to automate bug submission? > What for? The main advantage of bug submissions inside the browser is the ability to retrieve a lot of informations automatically that you can't get inside a web page context. By exemple, in the extension : - a screenshot of the page - the content of the javascript error console - the uri, the window size, the user agent All technical datas a normal user don't know. The main reason is to get a better web by catching better feedback. > >> ... > > Best regards, Julian > >
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