Fried Fish: <a ping>

“I’ve been meaning to blog about a new web platform feature that
we’ve added to trunk builds of Firefox. It is now possible to
define a ping attribute on anchor and area tags. When a user
follows a link via one of these tags, the browser will send
notification pings to the specified URLs after following the
link.

“I’m sure this may raise some eye-brows among privacy conscious
folks, but please know that this change is being considered with
the utmost regard for user privacy…”

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