← Back to context Comment by Avery3R 6 years ago They're using the ping property of the <a> element now, the only good thing to come out of this 3 comments Avery3R Reply e12e 6 years ago On a more substantial note, that's documented here:https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#hyperlink0It's a little odd, to see that a browser "must parse", but also "may either ignore the ping attribute altogether, or selectively ignore URIs".It strikes me as a bit clumsy compared to the typical MUST/SHOULD/MAY wording.Anyone (other than Google) using a-pings? patmcguire 6 years ago Ah yeah that's definitely going to be different HTML on Lynx, then, since I bet they don't support that and Google's not missing out on tracking.Yup - curling with Lynx user agent gets a targets of href="/url?q=<whatever>" rather than href="<whatever>" ping="tracking" e12e 6 years ago Hm, so now I can go straight to the Google hosted AMP version without bumping through Google an extra time first? /s
e12e 6 years ago On a more substantial note, that's documented here:https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#hyperlink0It's a little odd, to see that a browser "must parse", but also "may either ignore the ping attribute altogether, or selectively ignore URIs".It strikes me as a bit clumsy compared to the typical MUST/SHOULD/MAY wording.Anyone (other than Google) using a-pings?
patmcguire 6 years ago Ah yeah that's definitely going to be different HTML on Lynx, then, since I bet they don't support that and Google's not missing out on tracking.Yup - curling with Lynx user agent gets a targets of href="/url?q=<whatever>" rather than href="<whatever>" ping="tracking"
e12e 6 years ago Hm, so now I can go straight to the Google hosted AMP version without bumping through Google an extra time first? /s
On a more substantial note, that's documented here:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#hyperlink0
It's a little odd, to see that a browser "must parse", but also "may either ignore the ping attribute altogether, or selectively ignore URIs".
It strikes me as a bit clumsy compared to the typical MUST/SHOULD/MAY wording.
Anyone (other than Google) using a-pings?
Ah yeah that's definitely going to be different HTML on Lynx, then, since I bet they don't support that and Google's not missing out on tracking.
Yup - curling with Lynx user agent gets a targets of href="/url?q=<whatever>" rather than href="<whatever>" ping="tracking"
Hm, so now I can go straight to the Google hosted AMP version without bumping through Google an extra time first? /s