[whatwg] List of links idea (href="" stuff)

[Anne van Kesteren]

The most common use case for href="" on every element seems to be about  
removing lots of characters when creating a navigation menu or a blog roll  
or similar list. So instead of typing

   <ul>
     <li><a href="">test</a>
     ...

you would type

   <ul>
     <li href="">test
     ...

Maybe we can change the content model of <ul> (and perhaps <ol>) to allow  
a series of <a> elements:

   <ul>
     <a href="">test</a>
     ...

For backwards compatibility text content would be allowed inside <ul> but  
must be ignored for the purposes of determining the semantics of the  
content (in a conforming HTML5 UA). This would allow:

   <ul>
     <a href="">test</a> |
     <a href="">test</a> |
     ...

Alternatively <nav> could be redefined to have this type of semantics when  
its content model is just <a> elements and text content.


(Also thanks to Sjoerd Visscher.)


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Anne van Kesteren
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