Aaron Johnson Now with 50% less caffeine!

Links: 2-7-2008

• Feed button test page
  This feels really sketchy: basically using JavaScript it’s possible to find out if someone using your site has visited another site by constructing links to that site and checking the visited link color.
  (categories: javascript hacks browserhistory )

yep, I was right, it is sketchy:

http://portal.spidynamics.com/blogs/spilabs/archive/2006/10/06/Stealing-Search-Engine-Queries-from-JavaScript.aspx

That’s a pretty cool idea though. Sketchy or not.