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guelo on Oct 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter's mandatory link shortener, t.co, was down

Well that sucks, I stand corrected. I was looking at browser's link hover and hadn't noticed the redirect. I still don't understand why the browser isn't telling me what I'm clicking on, that's bothering me.

andreasvc on Oct 8, 2012 [–]

It's because Javascript is allowed to override what's in the status bar.

eli on Oct 8, 2012 | [–]

More precisely in this case, it's because Javascript is allowed to override where clicking on a link actually takes.

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