Posted by Blinky the Shark on 09/28/07 20:47

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Blinky the Shark:
>
>> I'd say this was a weird one. Someone in a not-HTML group (a browser
>> group it was) this morning asked for a way to have the user that
>> clicks on a link be sent to a URL in the anchor's title attribute
>> rather than to the hreffed URL.
>
> It's of course impossible in HTML. Playing with JavaScript, you could modify
> the href attribute value when the link is clicked on, or you could directly
> tell the browser to go to a specific address. User agents with JavaScript
> disabled or not in use would naturally keep using the original href
> attribute. Maybe this is the idea? Cheating indexing robots to think that

If anything interesting appears from that poster, I'll report back in
this thread.

If anyone is interested that uses or is willing to set up
news.mozilla.org, the query appeared in mozilla.support.firefox and the
thread has the Subject header

clickable title

> the page links to page X when it in fact "links" to Y when JavaScript is
> enabled.

>> Anyone ever heard of such?
>
> Not about that particular technical idea, but I've seen a lot of crap on the
> Web and many "clever" ideas of cheating, shooting oneself on the foot and
> spitting at users.

I'd classify this along with those. Naturally my first knee-jerk
response was "deception", but it doesn't seem very deceptive to have the
user directed to a URL that he's likely to plainly see on hovering and
which is just as visible in the anchor as is the href.


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