[whatwg] Defining error handling: Picking the correct named anchor in case of ambiguity

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Eira Monstad wrote:
>
> Given the case:
> 
> <a href="#foo">click</a>
> 
> <a name="foo">first</a>
> <a name="foo">last</a>
> 
> I can't see that HTML5 defines which of the two identically named 
> anchors the link should match. It should probably be defined.
> 
> IE, Firefox, Konqueror and Safari all choose the first. Opera chooses 
> the last. We have an open interoperability bug on that.

This is now defined.

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