[whatwg] href attribute

carmen _ at whats-your.name
Sun Mar 11 13:35:44 PDT 2007


On Sun Mar 11, 2007 at 09:30:58PM +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:27:14 +0100, carmen <_ at whats-your.name> wrote:
> >suppose one is building a GUI with solely <canvas> elements. say you have a doorway, clicking on it opens into the room, which is another page. forcing this stuff into onclick() just because href= 
> >is invalid, decreases scrapability/accessibility. is one supposed to just wrap canvas polygons in <a>s or something?
> 
> What does <a href=""><canvas>...</canvas></a> not offer that <canvas href="">...</canvas> does? And if this is in fact an application you might actually want to have the <a> as fallback of the 

well i was thinking like <canvas><rect id=trees /><rect name=door href=room.html /></canvas>. i guess its not that simple yet..

> <canvas> along with other content...
> 
> 
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