[whatwg] Idea: Links w/o end anchors (is possible)
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Sat Aug 1 02:54:53 PDT 2009
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, ppj wrote:
>
> The Goal: Links w/o anchors.
> The Strategy: Two stage process.
> 1) get an extra 'search' attribute on to the <a> tag in HTML so that we
> have:
> e.g. <a href='...' search='...'>link text</a>
This is already possible using XPointer.
> 2) If there's take-up, then later on push for adding a date-time of
> creation attribute to <a>. This will add link history to the internet.
This doesn't seem to be necessary to solve the problem you stated.
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 Darxus at ChaosReigns.com wrote:
>
> It seems odd to me that the definition of the id attribute doesn't
> mention its use as a fragment identifier.
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html#the-id-attribute
I've added a paragraph mentioning the uses of the id="" attribute.
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, ppj wrote:
>
> Folks have suggested XPointer vs. attribute hack on the <a> element. But
> I would prefer the element to have something superficial ordinary people
> can understand, even if behind the scenes the browser turns that into
> XPointer.
I'm not convinced that the syntax of XPointer is preventing authors from
using it. I think the lack of implementations, or the lack of desire to
use the feature, are more likely problems.
> What's the present rate of user uptake of XPointer?
XPointer has not seen much success in getting browsers to implement it,
unfortunately, and the only implementation I know of (Gecko for XML
documents) isn't used much.
I encourage you to look at this FAQ entry:
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_the_spec.3F
...for advice on how to bring this feature forward.
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