[whatwg] Ping + Ping-prefix meta element.

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Jul 29 18:01:13 PDT 2010


On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Roger Hågensen wrote:
>
> Idea originally posted at 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409508
> 
> <META name="Ping-prefix" content="/trackout/">
> 
> If the browser see this meta tag it will behave as if ping attribute was 
> applied to all externally leading hrefs with the prefix added to the 
> start.

This is an interesting idea, but I think we should probably wait until 
ping="" is widely implemented before trying to add any more features on 
this front. This is a somewhat sensitive area.

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