Dave Anderson on Nostr: Relearning modern HTML, and amazed to find that <a> tags have a "ping" attribute that ...
Relearning modern HTML, and amazed to find that <a> tags have a "ping" attribute that fire off an async POST to whereever you like when someone follows the link. Explicitly designed for tracking user activity, in browsers since 2011.
According to MDN, Firefox is the only browser that doesn't send them. Not for any noble reason, there's just an 11 year old open bug to finish shipping it and it's not done yet.
(edit: boosting this? Want to learn modern HTML? See rec in https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/113261912941835525)
According to MDN, Firefox is the only browser that doesn't send them. Not for any noble reason, there's just an 11 year old open bug to finish shipping it and it's not done yet.
(edit: boosting this? Want to learn modern HTML? See rec in https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/113261912941835525)