Re: "placeholder link"

On 25 Jun 2007, at 1147, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
>
> At 10:45 -0600 UTC, on 2007-06-25, scott lewis wrote:
>
>> On 25 Jun 2007, at 0951, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
>>>
>>> when you need to read someone else's HTML, seeing
>>> <a> doesn't exactly immediately make you realise that it means  
>>> <span>.
>>>
>>
>> That's beside the point as <a> does not mean the same thing as
>> <span>.
>>
>
> Says who?
>

Section 3.12.1. The a element:

"If the a element has no href attribute, then the element is a  
placeholder for where a link might otherwise have been placed, if it  
had been relevant."


Scott.