- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:33:26 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Nicolas Froidure <froidure_nicolas@yahoo.fr>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Nicolas Froidure wrote: > > 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)" /> > > 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 ) > - etc (ws:, irc: ...) > > In order to test this i just made a Chrome extension illustrating how browsers > could handle this meta markup : > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bugmeback/hgmagcomobmjhaomdoihiggpdekaehmg > > The code is there : https://github.com/nfroidure/BugMeBack > > Are you interested in that kind of approach for bug reporting ? This seems interesting. My recommendation would be to continue developing the extension, and to try to convince browser vendors and site owners that this is a good feature to expose. If there is momentum behind a feature such as this, it is much easier to push it into a spec. See also: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_a_specification.3F On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Julian Reschke wrote: > > <link>, not <meta>. Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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