[whatwg] href attribute

[carmen]

On Fri Mar 02, 2007 at 08:09:10PM +0100, David Håsäther wrote:
> Colin Lieberman wrote:
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> >I don't see the href attribute specified anywhere but the a element in the current Web Applications spec. Is there interest in expanding actionable elements in this way?

definitely, as it facilitates the DRY principle of not repeating tags just to fulfll the browser's wishes of only having the href attribute on certain tags..

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> No, as this would not be backwards-compatible.

instead of the generic 'no'. can you implicate situations where a href tag on a non-'a' element confuses the browser?

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> David Håsäther
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