ISSUE-2

PINGUI

Practicability of UI requirements for hyperlink auditing

State:

RAISED

Product:

HTML Principles/Requirements

Raised by:

Julian Reschke

Opened on:

2007-11-03

Description:

In 4.12.2.1. Hyperlink auditing the spec currently states:

"User agents should allow the user to adjust this behaviour, for example in conjunction with a setting that disables the sending of HTTP Referer headers. Based on the user's preferences, UAs may either ignore the ping attribute altogether, or selectively ignore URIs in the list (e.g. ignoring any third-party URIs)." -- http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?rev=1.311&content-type=text/html;%20charset=iso-8859-1#hyperlink0

However, alpha versions of the first(?) UA to implement this, Firefox 3, currently have no UI for that, yet the feature is enabled. See developer discussion at <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/a8469770c8f9fe52/992ca62f6446a9e2>.

Having a "should" requirement to expose "ping" in the UI, while implementors do not implement that in practice, is problematic.

HTML5-SPEC-SECTIONS [hyperlink-auditing]

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Related emails:

1. ISSUE-2: pingui - Chairs Solicit Proposals (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2009-11-19)
2. Re: {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from oradnio@gmail.com on 2009-11-19)
3. Re: {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com on 2009-11-19)
4. {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2009-11-18)
5. {agenda} HTML WG telcon 2009-11-19: issues, action items, calls for consensus/proposals, task force reports (from Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com on 2009-11-18)
6. State of HTML WG Unresolved Issues (from mjs@apple.com on 2009-08-20)
7. Re: Spec with issue markers [was: Re: HTML5-warnings - request to publish as next heartbeat WD] (from jgraham@opera.com on 2009-08-19)
8. Re: Spec with issue markers [was: Re: HTML5-warnings - request to publish as next heartbeat WD] (from julian.reschke@gmx.de on 2009-08-19)
9. Re: Consolidated issues that may qualify as 'controversial' (from rubys@intertwingly.net on 2009-08-12)
10. Re: Consolidated issues that may qualify as 'controversial' (from shelleyp@burningbird.net on 2009-08-12)
11. Consolidated issues that may qualify as 'controversial' (from mjs@apple.com on 2009-08-12)
12. Re: <a ping> (from jonas@sicking.cc on 2009-08-11)
13. controversial issue candidates in issues 1-15 (from mjs@apple.com on 2009-08-10)
14. Re: ISSUE-2, was: Feedback on the ping='' attribute (from ian@hixie.ch on 2007-11-05)
15. ISSUE-2, was: Feedback on the ping='' attribute (from julian.reschke@gmx.de on 2007-11-03)
16. ISSUE-2, was: Feedback on the ping='' attribute (from julian.reschke@gmx.de on 2007-11-03)
17. ISSUE-2 (PINGUI): Practicability of UI requirements for hyperlink auditing [HTML 5 spec] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2007-11-03)

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