[whatwg] 5.12.3.7 Link type "help"

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Feb 12 19:26:27 PST 2009


On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
>
> ---cut---
> 5.12.3.7 Link type "help"
> The help keyword may be used with link, a, and area  elements.
> For link elements, it creates a hyperlink.
> ---cut---
> 
> Shouldn't that read "For *a* elements, it creates a hyperlink."?

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
>
> <a> elements are always hyperlinks, <link> can be hyperlinks or 
> resources. So it only makes sense for the <link> element to be 
> explicitly marked like this.

What Giovanni said. :-) Hopefully this is more obvious if you look at the 
other link types as well.

HTH,
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