Lol, let me clarify, I read comments and content here
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/darin/archives/009594.html Maybe I was a bit
overly simplistic in saying "speeding up links". I was overwhelmed by the
comments and connotations and in my own way was trying to discern a common
reasoning for ping attribute. I'm sure some nefarious uses could be found
for it's use as it goes with all things.
It does seem controversial and I am not sure what to think. I initially saw
the ping attribute in a link on the (at the time) #1 or top site on
silktide. I won't mention which one as it is quite a nice site. I will have
to go back and see if the ping attributes was used in a ad link, but I
thought it was in a track back or comment link. As I said I am fairly new to
paying attention to such things.
I also gathered it doesn't work in IE but does in FF?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lachlan Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] ping reference in <a href="" tag
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious and if off topic I'm sorry. As a middlin sort of novice
at all this, I browse source codes all the time. I came across
something the other day that I would like a bit more clarification
on.
I happened to catch a <a href=" tag with a ping in it.
Are you talking about the ping attribute? That's an controversial
experimental attribute being defined for the purpose of indicating
resources to be notified if a user follows a link. It's primarily
designed for notifying advertisers when a link is clicked.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ping
I did read a that is it supposed to speed up links or something.
No, it does no such thing. Where did you read that?
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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