On Friday 2014-05-16 08:58 -0400, Wesley Hardman wrote: > Can you detect if <a ping> is enabled? If so, having a preference isn't > going to be particularly useful as sites will just fallback to the redirect > method. If it is added as a UI preference, it needs to be silent, or else > the preference is really "track via pings, or track via slower redirect".
Sites can certainly tell if it's enabled with the help of a server (which those using it would have anyway); they can try it once, and if they get the ping, set a cookie. (And then they might use the faster ping method rather than the redirect only if the cookie is set.) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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