[whatwg] hashchange only dispatched in history traversal

[Linus Upson]

Fragment identifier seems to go back to at least 1994:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1630.txt

Linus
 

-----Original Message-----
From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org
[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Maciej Stachowiak
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 1:14 PM
To: Křištof Želechovski
Cc: 'WHATWG'; 'Ian Hickson'
Subject: Re: [whatwg] hashchange only dispatched in history traversal


On Aug 11, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:

> Originally the name after the hash was a bookmark, not a fragment,  
> because
> it would be defined on an anchor.  I agree that until the new  
> semantic makes
> it to the common knowledge using the name "fragment" for the purpose  
> may be
> surprising for some developers.

When was it called a bookmark? I'm pretty sure it has been called a  
fragment identifier back to at least the late '90s.

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>
> Best regards
> Chris
>
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> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 12:15 AM
> To: Maciej Stachowiak
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> Subject: Re: [whatwg] hashchange only dispatched in history traversal
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> I kind of like onfragmentload but "fragment" seems to have  
> connotations of
> bits of documents rather than of fragment identifiers. I don't think  
> it's
> necessarily any clearer than "hash"... I don't know.
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