Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote: > >>I think a href has a behaviour that effectivly consists of three steps: >>The behaviour requesting the object from the user agent. (That makes it >>possible for a spider or a tabbed browser to thread / tab) >>The user agent creating and delivering the object. >>The behaviour invoking the desired method or altering the desired attributes >>of that object. > > I would say that's its semantics. That seems more to me like behavior than semantics. The semantic of a link is that of a pointer to another resource. There's no "creating" or "requesting" associated with what it *is*, only with how it typically behaves. The HTML spec does, however, go on to define also how it behaves by default: # The default behavior associated with a link is # the retrieval of another Web resource. -- http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1.1 ~fantasaiReceived on Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:58:06 GMT
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