- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:04:30 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:34:46 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > It means defining what the element represents. > > > > "represents" in the HTML5 spec when used about elements and attributes is > > a term that just refers to the media-independent rendering of those > > features, which as far as I can tell doesn't apply to <a name>. Did you > > have something else in mind? > > "The id attribute represents its element's unique identifier (ID)." I fixed that one when you mentioned it on IRC (there are spec gen problems that prevent this fix from being deployed right now). > If "represents" doesn't make sense for <a name>, then probably it > doesn't make sense for id="" either. The spec uses "represents" in many > similar places. Please file bugs about these, especially if the "represents" is hyperlinked (as it was in the case of "id"). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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