24371 2014-01-23 04:01:09 +0000 Instead of having ping attribute, it would be more beneficiall if there was a JavaSctipt API that coould do ping more reliably. Today most browsers will discard pending AJAX calls and navigate to the [...] 2014-01-24 23:24:13 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ping P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian liborvalenta mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 98931 0 contributor 2014-01-23 04:01:09 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#ping Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#ping Referrer: Comment: Instead of having ping attribute, it would be more beneficiall if there was a JavaSctipt API that coould do ping more reliably. Today most browsers will discard pending AJAX calls and navigate to the new documment immediatelly. It would be nice if we can tell browser to make sure specific request is sent, we don't need to supply call back for such request and thus page can be safely discarded. The only thing left in memory would be pending ping requests - the same thing as would be for requests made from the ping attribute. Posted from: 2001:470:85cd:0:862b:2bff:feaa:4e86 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 98932 1 liborvalenta 2014-01-23 04:19:49 +0000 Most of the tracking and logging on the web do not require response, letting browser know that you don't expect anything back can be very helpful to make it work efficiently and reliably. If ping attribute is implemented, I guess the Script can just modify the link attribute and let browser do the default action. Will that be enough though? Will for example form have ping attribute as well? How about script changing window.location? Will there be any mechanism to fire the ping request(s) from onbeforeunload? 98935 2 zcorpan 2014-01-23 06:20:01 +0000 https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/tip/specs/Beacon/Overview.html 99016 3 liborvalenta 2014-01-24 17:53:09 +0000 (In reply to Simon Pieters from comment #2) > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/tip/specs/Beacon/Overview.html Thank you Simon for the link. That's the API i was hoping to see. The @ping and sendBeacon are complementary and I hope they will be developed in harmony. Is there reason why ping is not proposed to be available on the form element? 99039 4 ian 2014-01-24 23:24:13 +0000 ping="" isn't on <form> because the main use cases were for straight links (e.g. ads), and we didn't want to add lesser used features until the first one was implemented. So we started with <a ping> and waited. Since it hasn't been widely implemented yet, we haven't added anything yet. The Beacon API may make this moot. I'm marking this WONTFIX for now, given the above.