Re: "placeholder link"

I agree and as a bonus this proposal is aligned with <a> in XHTML2
where its "identical in semantics to the span element."
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-hypertext.html#edef_hypertext_a

It's @href, @rel, etc. that make it meaningful. Omit them and you've
got a blank element (which you don't need to use if you don't want
to). I don't see it causing any issues though.



On 6/25/07, Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:24:10 +0200, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote:
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> > [...] So why exactly should
> > <a>content</a> be defined as conforming?
>
> Why not? What's wrong with <a>? It's conforming HTML4. It's shorter than
> <span> and the stylesheet rules will be simpler.
>
> Saying that your cleanup tool will mess it up can go for anything. Scripts
> might even break if you mess around with comments or whitespace...
>
> --
> Simon Pieters
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>