[whatwg] validate attribute in <A>

[Jon Barnett]

On 11/5/07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

>
> Philip brought up a good point on IRC which is that hashing the entity
> doesn't protect against changes to the headers (and hashing the headers
> isn't workable since they change).
>
> I'm not sure it's worth it.
>
> Those are good use cases, though.
>

If it were to be crammed into HTML, it would be nice if it were done like this:
<a href="..." type="application/octet-stream; md5=xxx">

That may not work, though, if it steps on RFC1864's toes.

-- 
Jon Barnett