- From: Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:56:57 +0900
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
"Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, 2013-03-19 19:40 +0000: > Michael[tm] Smith writes: > > "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, 2013-03-19 19:05 +0000: > >> <p><a name="test" />Inside or outside?</p> > > > > That's not valid per HTML5. The name attribute is not allowed on the <a> > > element. There is now never any good reason to use it. You can just use an > > id attribute on the p element to achieve the same effects. > > Yes, I do know that -- it was just the quickest way I could think of > to illustrate the parsing point. Take the name attribute off, and the > example still misbehaves exactly as I said it would. Sure, but then that <a> element is no longer serving any actual purpose in your document at all. So it's not a very compelling example of a real use case in need of polyglot markup. --Mike -- Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike
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