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Resulting from an interesting Twitter conversation I was following last week, we got talking in the office about sending traffic to a website and not sending across any record of what site it came from.
When you follow a link from one website to another, the second website can ‘see’ who sent the traffic to it. This is used in packages like Google Analytics to show you your traffic sources and, this is obviously very useful information. If you’re promoting products on your site and have many links through various mediums (Google Adsense, Facebook etc), you can see which sources are leading to traffic, and even through to conversions.
Marty McFly once said: “Yeah, well, history is gonna change”, and if you’re using one of the latest Gecko 2 based web browsers, such as Firefox 4, Thunderbird 3.3 or SeaMonkey 2.1, then this just might be the case for you.
Ignoring the fact I wanted to get a Back to the Future quote on the blog, it seems that the new JavaScript methods that these browsers will support; will allow developers to make changes to the URL bar without refreshing the browsers or directing the user to the new URL. It also means that you could ‘inject’ browser history to the viewer, but we are sure there’s been some thought around the security of this.
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