- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:40:54 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > <a id="mytable"></a> > <table><tr><td> > This is an important table that people should link to > </td></tr></table> > > both because authors copy/paste from existing HTML (which is informed by > the HTML 3.2 legacy of not being able to link to IDs) and because the > spec gives <a> a privileged status as an anchor destination that > obscures the fact that any element can be an anchor destination if > that's what you're really meaning to link to. There is another reason : Dreamweaver, in its infinite wisdom, does not allow <A NAME="..."> ... </A> to be wrapped around existing content; it inserts it as if <A> were not a container in this context at all, just before any text highlit at the time of insertion :-( True as of DW 8.0.2; no idea if things have improved since then. Philip TAYLOR
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