- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:31:01 +0200
- To: Johannes Lichtenberger <jl@nabooisland.com>
- CC: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Johannes Lichtenberger schrieb: > On Sunday, 24. June 2007 19:01:09 Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> Johannes Lichtenberger wrote: >>> I don't really understand what "The a element without an href attribute >>> now represents a "placeholder link"." means, I can't really imagine what >>> a placeholder link should be or what it's used for. > > I'm not sure if it's a difference to HTML4 , the recommodation only > states "Authors may also create an A element that specifies no anchors, i.e., > that doesn't specify href, name, or id. Values for these attributes may be > set at a later time through scripts.". It seems an a-element without > attributes in HTML4 hasn't got a special "name" and in my Opionion it's not > really a link or "placeholder link", I don't think it needs a special name. I agree. I've been using <a> without attributes for some time, e.g. <a>dao at design-noir.de</a> plus a script that converts the content and adds the href attribute. As far as I remember, that's perfectly valid HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, so I fail to see how HTML 5 makes a difference. Dao
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