[whatwg] href attribute

Daniel Glazman daniel.glazman at disruptive-innovations.com
Sat Mar 10 21:03:02 PST 2007


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 :-)
Here, a global href is a really cool idea, we should have done it in
HTML 4 but we were too blind to see.

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