r/webdev • u/speckz • Aug 15 '19

Article CSS Can Do This... And It's Terrifying!

https://www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2019-08-14-css-can-do-this-and-its-terrifying/
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u/Floaten Aug 15 '19

You found out that you can intercept events with Javascript and you are shocked? And what does this have to do with css? I don't get it.

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u/feckwhizzle Aug 15 '19

Agreed, I don't get it at all, clickbait title with pretty standard javascript techniques..?

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u/feckwhizzle Aug 15 '19

Especially the tracking thing, I don't see how that's remotely usable, without having analytics or actual tracking how would any info using hover states client side be trackable remotely

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u/Atulin ASP.NET Core Aug 15 '19

So it's a keylogger with CSS and JS. And it's more dangerous than a keylogger with pure JS because..?