On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, dolphinling wrote: > > > > Thoughts? Is it evil? > > > > http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ping > > > > It's not evil in and of itself, but it won't ever be useful. Anyone who > just finds themselves curious won't be able to use it reliably for at > least 10 years, because of internet explorer. Anyone who actually > _needs_ to know won't ever be able to use it, because it's easily > disableable. Even in controlled environments where that can all be > standardized it won't be useful, because in a controlled environment you > can get most of that information easily anyway. > > I do like the semantics of it. I like how it separates two things > (linking and link tracking) which really should be separate. But I don't > think it will work, and I think it should be removed in favor of some > future idea that will work (if one is even possible).
I'll leave it in until someone comes up with a better idea, so that we have a placeholder (and so that people who wish to experiment with the idea can do so -- there seems to be at least some interest in it). I agree that if something better comes along in the future we should use that instead! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
