[tor-bugs] #15820 [Tor Check]: 'Check' site should have the YES/NO answer in the title + 2 other improvement suggestions

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Sat Apr 25 23:09:06 UTC 2015


#15820: 'Check' site should have the YES/NO answer in the title + 2 other
improvement suggestions
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 Reporter:  yurivict271  |          Owner:  arlolra
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Check    |        Version:
 Keywords:               |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:               |         Points:
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 Currently title always has the question "Are you using Tor?"

 It is very cheap and easy to make it much more informative by putting and
 answer there:
 * YES, You are using Tor
 or
 * NO, You are not using Tor

 This will be great for people who are on slow connections and have to wait
 for many seconds for an answer, so they can switch to another page and
 still see the answer.

 Additionally, for people with JavaScript enabled, you can also easily
 switch favicon to red one when the answer is NO, as a safety feature to
 catch attention more easily:

 {{{
 (function() {
     var link = document.createElement('link');
     link.type = 'image/x-icon';
     link.rel = 'shortcut icon';
     link.href = 'http://check.torproject.com/favicon-red.ico';
     document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link);
 }());
 }}}

 Additionally, again for people with JavaScript enabled, you can add the
 ability to automatically recheck every minute for an hour. When JavaScript
 is enabled, you don't need to reload the whole page, instead you can just
 fetch the boolean answer to save bandwidth, and then switch the page
 dynamically. So it will probably consume only 2 times the bandwidth, not
 60 times, when it will update 60 times.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15820>
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