[whatwg] href attribute

Billy Wong billyswong at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 17:28:32 PST 2007


On 3/6/07, Matthew Raymond <mattraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:
>    To me, the only advantage of a global |href| is that you can use it
> on block-level elements, and I don't see why a block-level version of
> <a> couldn't fill the same use case.

Indeed.  IMO, global |href| gives nothing but more confusion.  If we
want to have hyperlinks on block-level elements, it is simpler just
let <a> and/or other inline elements be legal to wrap block-level
elements.

Billy



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