Simon Pieters

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A bot that adds a comment in the GH issue when the status of a browser bug is changed to RESOLVED could be useful here. It could be useful for...

http://ircbot.responsiveimages.org/bot/log/respimg/2014-11-11#T100310

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3012 would address this.

The alpha of `:link` will be used instead, but that can be almost-transparent and you can use a different background color to tell the difference with `EyeDropper`. PoC: https://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/12527

@upsuper's comment is a social engineering attack where the page can detect which link was clicked more simply with an event listener. The attack I described can be used as...

This was raised in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5584 but no rationale given to why it was closed, other than this API being pursued instead. The explainer says https://github.com/WICG/eyedropper-api?tab=readme-ov-file#extending-inputtypecolor > This https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5584 proposes a...

Note that this might still be viable, and the constructor can continue to exist. It would just create an `input` element, similar to `new Audio()` or `new Image()`.

I wrote some more context for this in https://github.com/mozilla/explainers/blob/main/eyedropper-input.md

Also see https://github.com/WICG/eyedropper-api/issues/35

Also see https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3400