Boris,
thanks for the pointer and the feedback; I have added a separate issue
for tracking the discussion about the UI requirement.
BR, Julian
(Citing the full mail for Tracker)
Boris Zbarsky wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
I agree that ping="" should be made visible to users. Indeed, the spec
explicitly makes that a SHOULD, going far outside its usual boundary
of not specifying user interface requirements.
For what it's worth, this thread sparked some discussion at
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/a8469770c8f9fe52/a014d681071eb449#a014d681071eb449>.
The current state of things seems to be that creating a UI for this that
would actually mean something to users without at the same time being
completely in your face isn't really all that feasible. For example,
most users never look at the status bar when hovering over a link.
There will likely end up being an extension or something that will flag
pings in the status bar for those who truly care, of course. I would be
very surprised if no one creates one.
As far as the default behavior goes, the current approach seems likely
to be to provide no UI indication, and possibly to only allow pings to
URIs that are same-host with the originating page (note same-host, and
not same-origin, though that might end up changing too, of course). And
there would be preference UI to disable this behavior altogether,
naturally.
Actually we did consider UI at the time (I was involved in the
discussions). I would be interested in hearing details about the idea
I suggested above, namely of putting the domain names of the hosts to
be pinged in brackets after the link's own URI in the status bar:
http://www.example.com/foo/bar (tracked by example.net)
That's one of the possibilities talked about in the thread above.
-Boris
