- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:36:46 +1000
- To: "Simon Pieters" <zcorpan@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Sander Tekelenburg" <st@isoc.nl>, public-html@w3.org
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: > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:24:10 +0200, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote: > > > [...] 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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