- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:17:18 +0100
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Jirka Kosek 2009-01-29 09.37: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >>> If I ask a simple question, like: >>> >>> what does the name attribute on the "a" (anchor) element mean? >> The answer to this question is "nothing, this element is non-compliant in >> HTML5". In fact, that's exactly the answer you found, it seems. > > Just small side note. I think it would help if each element will contain > not only list of "Element-specific attributes" but also list or link to > global attributes available on all elements. The current editorial style > prevents using spec as a reference guide -- and in fact that way Roy > will quickly find that name attribute is not present on <a> in HTML5. Your note is indeed small. But it is not exactly a side note or unimportant. But it is tempting to think that HTML 5 would need much more than a a little change in the "current editorial style" in order to get the features you suggest. However, every step in this direction would be welcome. HTML 4 has an overview of all the elements [1], where the description of each element makes it clear *why* each element has the name it has. As well as a similar table over all the attributes [2]. Those two pages are probably the best starting pages for to read HTML 4 ... I guess that HTML 5 could benefitted from similar pages. [1] http://w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements [2] http://w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes -- leif halvard silli
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