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Links in Firefox to phone home when clicked on?
Firefox developer Darin Fisher has made an post to his blog about an interesting new feature that's just been
added to development builds: There is now a "ping" attribute that can be added to links that can be used to
specify a server that will be notified every time
the link is clicked on. Of course privacy concerns immediately spring to mind, but Fisher argues that the aim is to
"enable link tracking mechanisms commonly employed on the web to get out of the critical path and thereby reduce
the time required for users to see the page they clicked on" and to make click-tracking more transparent to the
user by eliminating current tracking techniques that are often hidden from the user. He says that in future builds the
statusbar will warn the user when a link has a ping URL, and presumably there will be an option to turn of pinging
entirely. Head over to Darin's blog and be sure to check out the lively discussion in the comments, or take a look at
the specification from WhatWG.[Via Slashdot]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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