[whatwg] href attribute

[carmen]

On Sun Mar 11, 2007 at 06:03:02AM +0100, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> On 11/03/2007 05:59, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> 
> >In any case not all <a>'s are hyperlinks so for your meaning of semantic they should also not be automatically hyperlinks (or anchors if you wish). I am pretty sure that existence of 'href' 
> >attribute is what creates semantic meaning of <a> for you. So why <a> cannot be <b href> or <c href>?
> 
> Let me also play the devil (I love it) : a feature is not trashable
> only because it comes from XHTML 2.0 :-)

wow, thanks for pointing that out... i had no idea. at least if i start doing it i can prove someone else thought it was a good enough idea to put in writing..

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-hyperAttributes.html




> Here, a global href is a really cool idea, we should have done it in
> HTML 4 but we were too blind to see.
> 
> </Daniel>
>