[Bug 24273] Consider allowing the nohref attribute on area elements from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2014-01-13 (public-html-bugzilla@w3.org from January 2014)

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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24273

--- Comment #4 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Michael[tm] Smith from comment #3)
> (In reply to Leif Halvard Silli from comment #0)
> > Whenever an <area> element has an @alt attribute but does  not have a @href
> > attribute, the validator screams that @href is lacking.
> 
> Yeah, that's intentional, because the spec says, "If the area element has no
> href attribute... the alt attribute must be omitted."

what would be useful is to know why the spec says this.

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